Our Livestock Centres
Wellard Rural Exports utilises its own assets and management, as well as quality third party contractors, to support its live export buying and shipping programs.
Wellard has the largest investment in live export support facilities of any Australian livestock exporter.
Facilities owned and/or operated by Wellard include:
Western Australia
Wellard Head Office, WA
- Location: 1A Pakenham Street, Fremantle
- Wellard operations centre
- Staff 100 (including Wellard Agri)
Wellard Feeds, WA
- Location: Wongan Hills, 200km south of Perth, WA
- Capacity: 65,000 tonnes of pellets produced each year, formulated for the live export industry
- Pellets: Manufactured from grains, legumes and straw produced in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt
La Bergerie, WA
- Location: Baldivis, 30km south of Perth, WA
- AQIS accredited pre-export facility
- Capacity: 75,000 – 80,000 sheep in elevated sheds
- 24-hour, fully automated feed and water system
- Shearing capacity: 3600 sheep per day
- AQIS No. LAE007
Stirling Yards, WA
- Location: Hazelmere, 20km east of Perth, WA
- AQIS registered premises for pre-export aggregation
- Capacity: 1200 cattle
- AQIS No. LAE009
The Grange, WA
- Location: Dongara, 350km north of Perth, WA
- Cropping and grazing aggregation
- Size: 14,500 hectares
Watheroo, WA
- Location: Watheroo, 210km north east of Perth, WA
- Three cropping properties with some livestock grazing
- Size: 11,051 hectares
Kojonup, WA
- Location: 250km south of Perth, WA
- Livestock and cropping properties, including the Hyfield Poll Merino stud
- Size: 7,886 hectares
Victoria
Turkey Heath, VIC
- Location: Strathdownie, 370km west of Melbourne, VIC
- 1200 hectare breeding and backgrounding property
- AQIS registered premises for pre-export aggregation
- First class facility to capture unique soil fertility and rainfall of southeast Australia
- Capacity: 3,000 cattle
- AQIS No. LAE166
Queensland
Lansdown, QLD
- Location: 40km south of Townsville, QLD
- 2300 hectares for backgrounding cattle and hay production
- Proposed feedlot and pre-export aggregation facility
- 16,000 cattle capacity
Kelly's Yard, QLD
- Location: 30km south-west of Townsvile, QLD
- AQIS registered premises for pre-export aggregation
- Capacity: 10,000 cattle
- AQIS Registration No: LAE182
Northern Territory
Santavan, NT
- Location: 40km south of Darwin, NT
- Cattle feedlot
- AQIS registered premises for pre-export aggregation
- Capacity: 6,000 cattle
- AQIS No. LAE093
Woolner Flood Plain, NT
- Location: 70km north-east of Darwin, NT
- Cattle finishing property
- Area: 647 sq/km
- Capacity: 20,000 cattle