Company: COOT
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001641172-25-010068
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Company: Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form: S-1/A
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Supply Chain from Central Queensland

The Central Queensland region is a highly significant area within Queensland’s wider agricultural industry. Most regions in Australia hold the ability to produce one broadacre crop per year. Crop planting windows in the Central Highlands region are wider, crops mature faster (due to warm climate) and reduced risk of damage from frost. Given the right conditions, this enables an increased cropping intensity of two crops to be planted and harvested in a year without penalties to yields.

As of 2019, Central Queensland region has more than 400 operations growing grains, pulses and oilseeds primarily under rain grown production conditions and more than 45,300 hectares of broadacre crops are grown under flood, lateral and pivot irrigation. The Australian Bureau of Statistics values broadacre cropping at $103 million, making it the second largest agricultural activity in the Central Highlands.

The Central Queensland cropping area can grow up to 65,000 to 70,000 tons of oilseed (primarily cottonseed and sunflower seed) per year. During the early 2000’s, the region produced more than 80,000 hectares of sunflower seed. Now the region currently imports between 30,000 and 40,000 tons of sunflower oil per year.

Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) and Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) in partnership with Farmacist and Savannah Ag Consulting (agronomists) conducted a three-year research experiment under the “Developing an oilseed industry for North Queensland” project comparing the crop yield rates of several oilseed crops grown in Central and Northern QLD to industry averages. The project trials were conducted from Emerald in Central Queensland to North Queensland featuring oilseed crops including canola, Indian mustard, carinata, soybeans, linseed, nigella, sunflower, camelina, safflower and black sesame. Results have shown that several oilseed crops produce the same or better yields in tropical Queensland compared to trials in temperate climates, alleviating decades of industry assumptions around growing conditions in the regions. The clear standouts were canola which produced a 2.85 tons per hectare yield, higher than the 2.54 tons per hectare outcome from the National Variety Trial (NVT) Roundup Ready trials, and safflower that had a 2.6 tons per hectare yield and was over double the