Post-WWI maize industry focus for Atherton

Sally Gall
Updated June 27 2016 - 3:02pm, first published 9:15am
Grain industry: Maize silos, built at Atherton using a slip-form concreting method, opened in 1924. Picture: Tablelands Regional Council.
Grain industry: Maize silos, built at Atherton using a slip-form concreting method, opened in 1924. Picture: Tablelands Regional Council.

Maize production on the Atherton Tableland was started to provide feed for the horses, mules and bullocks used in the mining industries that grew up around Herberton and Irvinebank in the 1880s, and in the canefields on the coast.

Sally Gall

Sally Gall

Senior journalist - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Based at Blackall, CW Qld, where I've raised a family, run Merino sheep and beef cattle, and helped develop a region - its history, tourism, education and communications. Get in touch at 0427 575 955 if you've got a story idea for me.

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