FOR ALL its headache-inducing complexities, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in practical, on-farm terms boils down to two simple questions for dairy farmers.Read more...
The Federal Government has refused to help dairy farmers in their battle with supermarkets, declining to enact any recommendations from the recent Senate inquiries into supermarket behaviour.Read more...
RECENT WIDESPREAD rain across the east of the state will impact the nutritional value of dry pastures, meaning livestock may require increased volumes of supplementary fodder to maintain existing production levels.Read more...
MURRAY GOULBURN has maintained its forecast end of season price of $5.30/kg milk solids while Fonterra Australia has said it expects to close the season "well within" Dairy Australia's forecast price range of $5.10-$5.50kg/MS.Read more...
FONTERRA HAS just commissioned its second dairy farm in China and begun work on a third farm. The new farm is performing ahead of expectations, says the man in charge of the co-op's overseas farming ventures, Peter Moore.Read more...