Biloela is a growing rural town with a very diverse agricultural industry including cotton, sorghum, wheat, herbs and spices. There is also a huge cattle industry with the largest number of cattle of any Shire in Queensland.
It is home to the silo-in-the city, a huge silo that can be seen for 10 kilometres. The Town is also the centre of the Banana Shire, but there are no bananas grown in the shire. The name came from a dun-coloured bullock, named Banana, which worked on a property in the region in the mid 19th century.
Biloela came into being only in 1924 as an agricultural centre. Coal was first mined in the 1940s but was transported to Gladstone. First started by Theiss Bros. Callide A commenced production over 30 years ago with 2 x 120 Meg generators. Callide B came on line in 1988 with 2 x 350 Meg units and Callide C is presently under construction. This should be finished by end of 2001 with 2 x 410 Meg generators and an overall consumption of about 6 million tonnes of coal from Callide Coalfields.
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