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Baking under the expansive Queensland sky, this bustling feedlot near Goondiwindi pulses with agricultural precision. A dense herd of beef cattle - a mix of black, brown, and white-faced breeds - stands clustered within carefully engineered metal pens, each animal tagged with bright yellow identifiers. In the background, a robust blue truck and yellow front-end loader stand ready for pen maintenance, highlighting the sophisticated waste management infrastructure critical to modern intensive cattle farming. Shade sails stretch overhead, providing crucial protection from the relentless summer heat, their geometric lines contrasting with the organic mass of cattle below. The earth is a pale, compacted terrain, telling stories of constant movement and meticulous management. This scene encapsulates the industrial scale of contemporary Australian beef production - a complex choreography of animal husbandry, environmental adaptation, and technological intervention that defines large-scale agricultural operations in the region's challenging landscape.