History

Sunland Cattle Co Pty Ltd was formed in 1991 and is owned by Paul Harris. Paul and Clare began their Wagyu venture with the acquisition of over 1100 Wagyu in 2007.

They continued to increase their Wagyu numbers further by buying a complete Fullblood Wagyu herd of over 500 Fullbloods plus embryos and semen in 2010, and currently run over 10,000 Fullblood Wagyu.

There is a well established breeding program using the best genetics and large artificial insemination programs and large Embryo programs.

Property tours have been conducted at Ten Mile Station for Beef Week in 2003 and at Old Bombandy for the World Wagyu Conference in 2015 and Beef Australia 2015. Delegates from around the world attended these events.

In May, 2018 another property tour was conducted at Ten Mile Station for Wagyu producers, and this was attended by well over 200 people.

Ten Mile Station was again listed as a tour destination for Beef Week 2024.

Awards

On our first entry into a competition with our Wagyu, we achieved success at
the Royal Queensland Show 2019 RNA PADDOCK TO PALATE competition with our prize-winning
PEN OF SIX CARCASES.

Our entry in the Royal Queensland Show 2020 RNA PADDOCK TO PALATE competition was again highly successful as we were awarded the HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL CARCASE VALUE as well as winning the RNA PADDOCK TO PALATE TASTE OFF competition.

Sunland Cattle Co’s success continued, claiming prizes in the Royal Queensland Show 2022 RNA PADDOCK TO PALATE for PEN OF SIX CARCASES VALUE and an OVERALL PRIZE. Sunland secured FIRST place in the 2022 ANNUAL NET FEED INTAKE AWARD with the OVERALL HIGHEST PROFITABILITY SIRE.

Sunland continued to celebrate their awards in the 2023 Royal Queensland Show RNA PADDOCK TO PALATE competition as they were awarded the OVERALL WINNER of Class 39 Wagyu Challenge.  Sunland also took out awards in Class 39B Carcass, Class 39C Carcass Value and took out FIRST and THIRD place in the BEEF TASTE OFF and FIRST and THIRD PLACE OVERALL.

These results reflect our many years of breeding and we are working towards having all animals in our herd achieve these high standards.