ABOUT CANOBOLAS EGGS

Our History
The Peffer Pastoral Co Pty Limited was started in 1955 by Ivo and Marie Peffer with six chooks on a patch of farmland that is now suburban western Sydney. Our diversified agricultural activities include production of Egelabra merino wool, prime lambs, beef and crops like wheat and canola. We use the wheat in our chook feed and spread our chook manure on our paddocks as a potent natural fertiliser. This wide range of farming activities helps keep us busy!

Our egg business is Canobolas Eggs Pty Limited, a company and brand that was conceived by the Peffer family when the egg industry was deregulated in the early 1990s. Under Ivo’s guidance, sons Graeme and Colin Peffer decided to launch a new brand when many in the industry were encouraging small producers to maintain the status quo of industry-wide egg marketing. They saw our great location as a key to our business success and chose to concentrate on building a regional brand, providing quality products and personal service to our local market throughout the Central West. Today, a third generation of Peffers – Rob and Josh – have joined with Ivo and Colin in continuing that tradition.

Our Historic Property
“Vale Head” is the name of our property outside Molong. It was originally granted to one of Rev Samuel Marsden’s daughters in the 1830s. Rev Marsden was a major church, business and political figure in the early colonial settlement of Australia. The original farmhouse was built on a rise overlooking the town which was growing along Molong Creek (hence the property name meaning “Head of the Valley”). That house was known as the “Roundhouse” and had an unusual semi-octagonal design. Sadly, the Roundhouse was destroyed by fire in the late 1970s, shortly before the Peffer family relocated their business to Molong in 1980.

Our farm has some rocky outcrops and ridges characteristic to Molong (a name meaning “place of many rocks”) but also some prime agricultural land upon which we cultivate crops – partly to feed our hens – and graze both sheep and cattle.