News Articles for Western Meat Packers

The foreign owner of two mothballed abattoirs has put both facilities up for sale and will exit WA after two years of radio silence about its future.

A collective of farmers are pressing ahead with a plan to build a large multi-species abattoir in the Great Southern to service the booming paddock-to-plate market.

Western Australia's newest abattoir is on the market as demand from small producers to service their paddock-to-plate operations intensifies.

Capacity constraints at one of the last abattoirs offering contract kills have left WA's independent meat industry at risk of collapse.

Plans for a $35 million cooperative to take ownership of the Kimberley's sole abattoir have not progressed, with Yeeda Pastoral Company instead retaining full ownership.

Lawyer Michael Hollingdale's career has taken a new turn after being asked to help wealthy families with their estate planning.

Clarification

A bale of hay that survived the recent fires near Myalup, north of Bunbury, has proved a valuable catalyst to efforts to restore the communities affected by the disaster.

FARMING groups expect that a fire early this week at a Western Meat Packers Group facility in O'Connor will have costly consequences for the state’s meat processing industry.