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Southern Cross Feedlot

TFI cattle-finishing operation near Tintinara, South Australia, formerly Iranda, with distinct grain-fed and seasonal forage-finished streams.

Location

EPA’s August 5, 2025 account identifies the Webb Road/Tintinara feedlot and licence 44882. This livestock site is separate from the Murray Bridge slaughter plant.

Practices

The February 16, 2026 operating account describes mostly 150-day grain finishing, with some 200/270-day export programmes. Reported feeds include barley/winter wheat, silage, cottonseed/almond hulls and starter hay/molasses/trace elements.

Practices

Some oversized backgrounded cattle remain on improved pasture/forage instead of entering grain finishing. That seasonal non-grainfed stream supplies Angus Pure grassfed for the U.S.; it is not a Thomas Farms 93/7 retail allocation.

Practices

The 2026 account reports whole-feedlot shade, winter straw bedding, shorter winter pen-cleaning intervals and horse-handling training. These operating claims are not an independent welfare audit.

Sourcing

The operator describes a 1.5-hour journey to Murray Bridge; EPA separately identifies this site as Pallamana’s primary cattle source. Neither allocates every animal or a retail SKU.

Practices

The 2023–25 account reports 99% MSA compliance in both grainfed and non-grainfed groups. MSA measures eating quality, not general welfare or meat residues.

About

EPA’s2025 account describes a 2023 expansion from 15,000 to 27,000 standard cattle units; the operator page gives 20,000. These differently dated capacity claims are not current headcounts.

Sourcing

Southern Cross Pastoral/Farms and the feedlot are related operating contexts, not interchangeable parcels or diets. Neither is an assigned supplier of every Thomas Farms product.

Researched October 14, 2026