The multimillion-dollar debts keep mounting for companies associated with a failed Southland Wagyu beef operation, which promoted its cattle as receiving massages and having music played “to keep them soothed and calm”.
According to its website, Black Origin Wagyu combined the origin of Japanese breeding genetics and 200-year-old techniques with New Zealand’s grass, grain, water and air.
The cattle were grazed for their first two years on farms throughout the country before being finished on grain at a “state-of-the-art” barn in Rakaia. A meat processing plant operated in Gore.
In December last year, Origin Corporation — which was described as a holding company operation with passive investment in subsidiary companies — was…
