Saleyards in rural Australia attract a unique kind of visitor, intrigued by the spectacle of livestock sales. And there is no better place to go behind the scenes than at Roma, in outback Queensland.
abc.net.au/news/roma-saleyards-show-tourists-livestock-sales/102792188The business of selling livestock is bringing more than just animals to saleyards across regional Australia.Hundreds of visitors tour the Roma Saleyards in south-west Queensland every week, where cattle sales are held each Tuesday.
In the last financial year, just under a quarter of a million cattle were sold through the facility, for a value of $342 million.Roma has the largest saleyards in the country when it comes to cattle throughput. Retired graziers from across the Maranoa region now volunteer as tour guides for visitors to the Roma Saleyards.
"We have tourists from overseas — last week I had two young girls from Norway … and we've had people from other European countries that come in and have a look around," Mr Harth said.
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