Tabbita is a village community in the central part of the Riverina. It is situated by road, on the Kidman Way, about 10 kilometres north west of Warburn and 19 kilometres south east of

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. The Tabbita area is used prominently for

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purposes.

Notable enterprises

Prime City cattle feedlot

Prime City is a

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which was originally developed in the mid 1990s by Australian Meat Holdings. The feedlot has since been acquired by JBS, who use the facility to produce grain fed beef for the beef processing plant in Toowoomba. The feedlot was shut down in 2012, affecting 63 employees at the time. However, JBS re-opened the facility in late 2014, influenced by recent feedlot operations expansions at the Yanco facility.

GrainCorp

GrainCorp formerly operated a grain receival site in Tabbita. It was closed down in 2014, along with more than 60 other sites which were also closed in western New South Wales around the same time.

Infrastructure

Post office

Tabbita Post Office opened on 1 October 1927 and closed in 1974.

Train station

The Tabbita train station, situated along the

Temora–Roto railway line The Temora–Roto railway line is a partly closed railway line in the southwest of New South Wales, Australia. It branches from the Lake Cargelligo line at the town of Temora and travels west through the northern part of the Riverina to the to ...

, was established on 18 June 1923, and closed on 4 May 1975.

Telecommunications

In 2018, a

mobile phone tower A cell site, cell tower, or cellular base station is a cellular-enabled mobile device site where antennas and electronic communications equipment are placed (typically on a radio mast, tower, or other raised structure) to create a cell, or adjac ...

providing 3G and 4G wireless service was constructed by Vodafone, from a federal government

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under the Mobile Black Spot Program. Competing carriers Optus and Telstra have since added reception in the area.

Notes and references

External links

Tabbita 2021 Census
Australian Bureau of Statistics Towns in the Riverina Towns in New South Wales Sturt County Carrathool Shire {{Riverina-geo-stub