Colin Boyce (Flynn, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

According to Egg Farmers of Australia, egg farmers produce 17 million eggs every single day to feed Australian families. Queensland supplies about 25 per cent of the eggs in Australia, with egg farming generating $244 million at the farm gate in Queensland alone. In my electorate of Flynn, Smalls Trading Co., a poultry farm at Mount Morgan, has been operating since 1959. The poultry farm began with Kevin and Doreen Small, when Kevin bought some hens to combat nutgrass. In 1976, Nadine Goody, with her brother Gary Small and their siblings, Robert Small and Leanne Hinchcliffe, entered into a business partnership with their parents. After more than 60 years of producing eggs loved by customers across Central Queensland and beyond, in places like Rockhampton, Yeppoon, Gladstone, Biloela and Moura and as far as Mackay, Nadine Goody and Gary Small have made the decision to sell their family business. I'm pleased to see that the local business has been purchased by Peacefield Farms and the business should run as normal. I met Nadine and Gary in 2021 and saw firsthand the fantastic operation that they run. I would like to wish Nadine and Gary all the best for their well-deserved retirement and thank them for their commitment, feeding our region and beyond with that much loved food staple, eggs.