Environment

Harvest Road Group installed a Covered Anaerobic Lagoon in 2020 to treat wastewater and capture biogas at our Harvey Processing Facility. The biogas is utilised in a boiler on site, reducing the facility’s dependence on natural gas requirements by approximately one third while also reducing our greenhouse gas emissions on site.

The project is registered under the Australian Government’s Emission Reduction Fund and has the potential to obtain 14,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units for the next 7 years.

The Carbon Footprint and Reduction Options for Harvest Road Group Operations report, published in 2022, was the result of an 18-month research collaboration between Harvest Road Group and other key cattle and livestock industry leaders Meat Livestock Australia (MLA) and Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD).

This report marked the first time in Australia emissions from every aspect of the cattle production process have been examined – from feed intake and food sources to turnoff – to reveal which areas of the supply chain should be targeted to reduce emissions.
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The report’s emission reduction activities can be applied to any beef or livestock enterprise to assist in reducing carbon emissions across the red meat industry.

We have registered a soil carbon project to capture and absorb carbon at our Koojan Downs feeding facility. The approach involves the collection and redistribution of natural waste from the facility to surrounding paddocks, sequestering carbon into the soil.

The process improves the soil health by increasing water retention and nutrients within the soil. This carbon soil project was registered with the Emissions Reduction Fund in 2021 and is estimated to generate 5,600 Australian Carbon Credit Units per annum for the next 25 years.