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Established in 1824, Australian Agricultural Company (AAco) is Australia’s oldest agricultural company.

With its enviable reputation as the country’s foremost primary producer, AAco brings almost 200 years of experience and

knowledge in producing exceptional beef.

The custodian of more than seven million hectares of natural and disease-free farming and grazing land, AAco boasts a

Wagyu cattle herd of more than 30,000 head which has been handpicked and bred to deliver an outstanding eating experience,

every time.

With a Wagyu breeding herd comprised of some of the best Black Japanese Wagyu bulls and cows to ever leave Japan, AAco

has redefined the luxury beef market the world over. AAco Wagyu cattle are raised on premier cattle stations before being

finished on a specially formulated and highly guarded ration program at one of the company’s state-of-the-art feedlots.

Exceptional bloodlines, rigorous production processes, highly trained feeding masters and strictly enforced quality control

measures come together to deliver Wagyu beef that sets the benchmark by which all others are measured.

AAco WAGYU masters of luxurious beef

In the same way only sparkling wine out of the French region Champagne can be referred to as “champagne”, only Wagyu beef born into the Japanese prefecture of Hyōgo can be called “Kobe Beef”.

Kobe beef is typically derived from Wagyu cattle, “Wa” being Japanese for “Japan” and “gyu” meaning “cow”.

Prior to 1868, the consumption of beef was banned in Japan for about one thousand years with most cattle being bred

for work purposes. It wasn't until the late 1800’s when Emperor Meiji decreed beef should be eaten and enjoyed by all Japanese

people, did beef become generally consumed in Japan.

Throughout the centuries, however, it is believed Japanese Samurai were fed Wagyu beef to strengthen them for battle, and upon

returning from war brought their diet home and began cooking their beef on plow shears, a technique known even today as sukiyaki.

WAGYU BEEF an intriguing Japanese story

Adopted from the Japanese Grading System, AAco measures each Wagyu carcass across four criteria to accurately grade the quality

of the finished product.

This inflexible grading ensures each portion of Wagyu beef that wears one of AAco’s distinct brands lives up to the reputation the

company has secured the world over.

WAGYU GRADING masterfully graded to ensure quality

All AAco Wagyu can be managed and traced from its original cattle station to the restaurant using the SureTRAK™ system.

From birth, each calf carries a specialised radio frequency tag from paddock to

the processing plant. Each carcass has a sample of DNA cross-referenced to its

radio frequency tag, meaning any primal cut from any of our carcasses can be

DNA tested to verify customers are truly purchasing and receiving a genuine

AAco Wagyu product.

TRACEABILITY & AUTHENTICITYleaders in cross referenced DNA verification

Before being awarded the privilege to wear the coveted Master Kobe

brand, cattle spend between 500 and 600 days at “Aronui”, an AAco

Wagyu feedlot on the unspoiled Darling Downs, enjoying a naturally

grown and specially formulated feeding program that has been handed

down and developed from selected Wagyu feeding masters in Japan.

The unmistakable perfection of Master Kobe Wagyu beef can be found

at elite restaurants from Tokyo to New York and Sydney to Dubai, and is

reserved only for customers who expect nothing short of the

unmistakable purity that is Master Kobe.

Rich in flavour, extraordinarily tender and seductively rare, Master Kobe, the flagship Wagyu brand of AAco, is produced without compromise and is derived only from full blood Wagyu cattle that achieve a minimum marble score of AA9 (equivalent to Japanese Wagyu grading of A5).

MASTER KOBE the unrivalled perfection of pure Wagyu beef

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AAco is the proud home of some of the world’s most revered full blood Black Wagyu breeding bulls and cows.

001 Hirashige-Tayasu, also known as “Westholme 001”, was born in

Japan and is by Dai 20 Hirashige, the son of Kedaka, who gained 84.7

points as an "Ikushu-Toroku" - the highest honour in Japan at the time.

An official Kangen progeny test showed that at least 80% of his steers

would gain A5 grade.

001 HIRASHIGE-TAYASU first class genetics, unrivalled purity

001 HIRASHIGE-TAYASU

D.O.B 27/12/89Bloodline: Kedaka

HOUSANGreat Grand Sire

KEDAKAGreat Grand Sire

KEDAKAGrand Sire

DAI 13 HIRASHIGEGrand Dam

DAI 20 HIRASHIGESire

TAYASU-DOIGreat Grand Sire

DAI 5 NAKAYAMAGreat Grand Sire

DAI 5 YURUHIMEDam

TAYASUFUKAGrand Sire

YURIKOGrand Dam