Case Study: Crown point pastoral

Responsible for one of Australia’s largest organic beef properties, it is important for Crown Point Pastoral’s Pete and Raquel Costello to create efficiencies in managing their enterprise. 

Crown Point Pastoral runs 39,000 breeders and growers at eight pastoral properties, covering 75,000 square kilometres in Central Australia.

To collect valuable cattle data, the Costellos use a Gallagher TWR-5, integrating the data collected crush-side with Black Box Co software, which Pete says has been an “absolute game-changer” for their business. 

“Prior to introducing the system, exporting and importing data was taking up a lot of time, and led to double and triple handling of data,” he said.

“The integration of Black Box and Gallagher allows us to collect data and view it under one platform. 

“The two systems communicating together makes it much easier to ensure data accuracy and efficiency when drafting, and gives us the ability to link our on-farm data with carcase feedback information to identify lost opportunity and areas we need to improve within the herd.”

Ongoing support from Black Box and Gallagher make it easy for the Costellos to correctly label traits and life data for their cattle, to ensure crush-side data is being transferred correctly to Black Box. 

They can also make little adjustments along the way, to ensure the system continues to serve the business to its full potential. 

Raquel said the option to sync data between Gallagher and Black Box at a time that suits the business is another great benefit of the integration.

“When connecting to the cloud, we can choose to sync our data now or later, so that’s a real practical option and allows us to transfer data when it is convenient,” she said.

“I recommend this system to any time-poor producers that are searching for a way to better their business through data collection and then interpret the data on one platform.”