
Organic Farming
Organic farm animals are fed a healthy diet and reared without the routine use of drugs, including growth hormones and antibiotics.
Organic farming pays full regard to the evolutionary adaptations and behavioural needs of farm animals, as well as to animal welfare issues with respect to nutrition, housing, health, breeding and rearing.
A MOTHER-DAUGHTER abattoir act is turning heads in the Far North - as much for its organic meat products as the operators` gender.
Tully`s Kristine and Kerry Jonsson were graziers on the family`s Jervoise cattle station at Greenvale near Mt Garnet, west of Cairns, before they decided to start up a slaughtering, processing and packaging side of the business.
They now run the Far North`s only certified organic abattoir, selling a range of organic meats and recently combining forces with the Tableland`s Mungalli Creek dairy for distributing purposes.
Kristine Jonsson said the niche market was steadily growing.