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At 83, Yarragon farmer Ron Goff talks about his remarkable career scaling up to process 1000 head a week for export markets.

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00:00I've got a few cows and calves, so I feedlot a few Eurocross calves, sell those all to Radfords,
00:06and other than that I'm just a play-around farmer.
00:09They're meat-producing cattle and they serve my operations for the Chinese and Vietnamese markets
00:17when they're finished in the feedlot.
00:20A fellow around the road in Dandenong used to take as many as I could get every day,
00:27and it snowballed from there and I ended up killing 1,000 cattle a week and sell them to exporters,
00:33the cows and whatever else, bulls, I used to kill a lot of bulls, I'm 83 and the average
00:40week looks pretty good when you're 83, I just feed my cows and go to the markets two days
00:47a week, only coonwara now, and mow lawns, and don't do much else, I've got 40 or 50 acres
00:58of river country and the rest is rising country, it grows a lot of grass, I obviously can't
01:06see it because I run too many cows and calves on it, but it's a good paddock, good little paddock.

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