PCA - The Peanut Company Of Australia

Kingaroy Peanut Festival &
South Burnett Wine and Food In The Park



	The Kingaroy Peanut Festival celebrates the importance of the peanuts to the South Burnett

PCA has been proud to be a part of the South Burnett community for more than 80 years.

Over the years we've supported many local events, including the iconic Kingaroy Peanut Festival.

We've helped to organise competitions to toss cricket balls over our silos; helped abseilers to scale down them; and encouraged teams to pull massive peanut threshers in front of them.

We've built floats for parades; watched as Kingaroy residents wrestled in peanut butter; and sponsored the Kingaroy Gold Duathlon and annual Peanut Dinner.

We've also supplied literally millions of peanuts for everything from peanut tossing to peanut golf chipping and peanut "nummy" spitting!

In 2009, PCA's Thresher Pull team starred on the day by recording the fastest pull ... an amazing 13.12 seconds for hauling a 16 tonne Amadas peanut thresher over 50m - faster than the Guinness World Record Time!

Peanut farmers also compete in the thresher pull and divide into teams based on an imaginary line drawn along Haly Street, Kingaroy.

South Burnett South farmers (aka Kumbia) compete against South Burnett North (aka the Wooroolin Swamp Rats) in the hotly contested Australian Title Farmers Cup. Growers from Tolga and other peanut-growing areas have also competed in some years too.

PCA's triumphant 2009 thresher pull team

PCA's triumphant 2009 peanut thresher pull team
pulled a 16-tonne thresher in world record time

Australian Title Farmers Cup Winners

2009 - North
2008 - North
2007 - South
2006 - North
2005 - North
2004 - South
2003 - South
2002 - South

As well as the Peanut Festival, PCA has also been involved in the popular South Burnett Wine and Food in the Park Festival which is held every March in Kingaroy.

At this event, we have hosted celebrity chefs, encouraged local chefs in cook-off competitions and even staged a Junior Chef competition.