Since Wagyu animals were imported to Australia in the 90’s, the breed has undergone a streamlining that really differentiates animal husbandry and sustainability standards from their traditional homeland. The Japanese production system revolves around heavy shed-based feeding programs of approx. 20 cows per farmer, and each animal enjoys a lifetime of intensive and expensive feedlot indulgence, producing extreme marbling that exceeds the Aus-Meat grading system. Whereas the average Australian based Wagyu farmer runs approx. 2,000 animals on grass, followed by a feedlot program. Indeed there is one particular wagyu farmer based in QLD who owns more Wagyu animals than all of Japan and the rest of the world combined!

In relative terms, we Binnies run approx. 2,500 head, with 500 animals on a 400-day feeding regime at all times, each of our animals are born and bred at our Hunter Valley home “Mirannie Station”. The cattle spend their first few years peacefully grazing on lush pastures of rye grass and clover, and drinking from crystal clear spring fed creeks, then they are placed in a feeding regime that can be based on farm, or off farm, depending on the season. After feeding, our wagyu is then processed at a Cassino based custom processing abattoir, where its Hallal accredited, broken down and either blast frozen of retained as fresh depending on its end destination, crio vacuum sealed, boxed, distributed.