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Rural Windows of Opportunity

Due to its strategic regional location, diversified soil structure/topography, extensive natural resources and raw materials and availability of land and water, Inglewood Shire, fed by two river systems, offers enormous scope for new rural opportunities in development of “clean and green” or fully Organic food and livestock production.

Inglewood Shire enjoys a climate not unlike that of the richly diverse Northern California region of the USA, and with improving strategic world market potential and opportunities, there is scope for the Inglewood Shire to be a major export producer of huge variety of fresh food products.

These could include an already growing diverse range of horticultural products, with olives becoming a major new industry, vegetable small crops, specialised grain crops, Lucerne, peanuts, native cut flowers and production for export quality wines. Prime export beef/lamb/pig production, venison and a
growing aquaculture industry can also support leading new initiatives.

With such broad scope for high quality production, its excellent strategic location, access to major transport routes and close proximity to the growing significance of the proposed Inland Rail Corridor, Inglewood Shire is a “natural” for value added processing of its rich produce.  Already, there are two major export beef cattle Feedlots in the Shire, (Yarranbrook, near Inglewood and Whyalla near Texas (Whyalla being the largest in the Southern Hemisphere) and there is enormous scope for the Shire to accommodate a large, export Piggery.

The first stage of what will become the largest Olive Oil and Table Olive processing Plant in the Southern Hemisphere is already operational at Inglewood.  There is an increasing number of Wine producers in the area. For details please go to our Tourism section. The Shire’s vast reserves of timber also hold potential for value adding industries.