Acland Pastoral Company
Acland Pastoral Company is a farming, grazing and land management enterprise located north-west of Oakey in Queensland, operating adjacent to our New Acland Mine since 2006.
We manage more than 9,000 hectares of land, including 1,400 hectares of dryland cropping, 200 hectares of irrigation, and more than 1,200 breeders provide weaners for our cattle backgrounding operation. We also run cattle on rehabilitated areas of the mine.
A five-year cattle grazing trial, overseen by independent livestock consultants and a local university, found rehabilitated mining land at New Acland Mine is as productive, if not more productive than non-mined land. The trial involved grazing two herds of cattle, one on rehabilitated mining land and one on a non-mined paddock comparable in feed quantity and quality.
