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Queensland Country Life
  • 6/18/2025
Central Queensland beef producer Tom Acton explains why he and his wife, Sherrie, decided to start breeding Wagyus on their 5000 acre property, Paradise Lagoons, near Rockhampton.
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00:00Me and my wife and my children run a Wagyu operation here with about 300 breeding cows.
00:06I have done since 2022. We only got a small amount of country here, very productive, fertile country
00:14and we just thought the Wagyu would be the prime animal for our best production and that's why we
00:20like the Wagyu. They're a very versatile animal and very great eating ability and we can look
00:28after them well here and yeah.

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