Australian Agricultural Company Limited

And they have their own composites, which they control.

I can give examples here by three or four large companies like AACO, Australian Agriculture Company, Australian Pastoral Company, and there's a lot of field that I can recall by head.

What they did, they crossed Brahma, Shorthorn, Sharbrace, Devons, and whatever.

And what they have, they have a cattle that was truly adapted to the environment.

Carrington, over in Carrington.

My ancestor was the first medical officer for the AA Co, Australian Agricultural Company.

Oh, wow.

Came out

And of course, long before either existed, there was Gomeroi and Kamilaroi country there.

European occupation changed the region dramatically during the first half of the 19th century, particularly after the Australian Agricultural Company, which I'll call the AA Company, began acquiring enormous areas of land through the Peel Valley.

In June 1834, the company's commissioner, Colonel Henry Dumoresque, settled a site near the junction of the Peel River and what became known as Goonoo Goonoo Creek for the company's headquarters.

I love that name.

Goonoo.

The name Tamworth was apparently chosen because of the connection between Sir Robert Peel and Tamworth in Staffordshire, England, of course.

The AA company established its own settlement on the western side of the Peel.

It was essentially a company town created to service its enormous pastoral operations.

who's also on the ICMJ committee, so I get to work with him a lot, which is awesome.

But James works for AA Co and they do custom kills.

So when you send a mob of carcasses into the boning room, and you have a low yield day, there's no ability to say, was that the cattle or the carcasses we sent into that boning room? Or was that the people in the boning room having a bad day? So you've got, it's totally confounded.

Whereas if you had a value to say, okay, these animals are high yielding today, we're gonna get more meat out of the boning room.

And you sort of hinted at parts of it, but you work for a private family business, although that sounds like a very good one and a very large one with Sandy Munro.

You're in one of the biggest corporate spaces with AA Co and then into processing with Binderee.

How do those experiences shape you as a, you know, you're obviously running your own business today and then as a livestock marketer in general?

Yeah, well, look, I think that's a really good question and it's probably a little bit hard to define, but I've been doing this roles that I spoke about for 30 years.