Sustainability

What Morgan Beef does with the sun, the water, the by-products and the animals in its care, stated as practice rather than promise.

01Energy and soil

Energy and soil

Sun on the roof, compost on the land.

Solar electricity

On-site solar generation reduces daytime grid demand. The panels are mounted on the roofs of the abattoir buildings and feed the plant's own load first.

Composting

Organic by-products are composted and returned to agricultural soils. Manure from the feedlot pens and organic matter from the abattoir are composted on the farm and spread on the lands that grow feed for the feedlot.

Compost

02Water

Water

Water used, treated and returned.

An abattoir uses water for cleaning, on the slaughter line and for cooling. Morgan Beef meters its water intake and treats its effluent before it leaves the site.

Effluent from the slaughter floor passes through screening and a treatment plant before discharge under the municipal permit. Solids removed in screening go to composting.

At the feedlot, run-off from the pens is channelled to holding dams, and the water is used on the crop lands.

03By-products

By-products

Every part of the animal has a use.

Hides

Hides from the Springs abattoir go to Brits Leathers, the sister tannery at Brits, North West. The abattoir's status for hides: Approved source of hides and skins for export.

Rendering

Bones, fat and trimmings that are not sold as food go to rendering, where they become tallow and meal.

Offal and bones

Edible offal, bones and fats are sold as products in their own right.

Hides Brits Leathers Bones, fats and trimmings

04Animal welfare

Animal welfare

Welfare principles at the feedlot and the abattoir.

Cattle have constant access to water. Cattle are fed twice daily with a ration formulated by nutritionists and milled on site; a bunk reader adjusts each pen's feed daily.
Pens are stocked so that every animal can lie down, feed and move.
New arrivals are inspected on arrival and daily thereafter. Sick animals are moved to a hospital pen and treated under veterinary direction.
Cattle are transported in licensed vehicles over the shortest practical route and rested before slaughter.
Slaughter takes place under the supervision of the National Independent Halaal Trust (NIHT) and the state veterinary service, with handling procedures designed to keep stress to a minimum.

The feedlot The abattoir