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Geoff Adams

Geoff is rural group editor for McPherson Media Group and confesses to being a failed dairy farmer, having grown up on the farm at Rochester. He enjoys visiting farms, taking photos and sharing the odd story about "the old days", milking 60 cows, riding the chestnut mare and raising calves for my brother.

News

Dairy code promised by early 2020

The Australian dairy industry mandatory code of conduct will come into effect in January 2020, the Minister for Agriculture, Bridget McKenzie, has announced. Senator McKenzie, said the aim of the mandatory code is to improve the contractual...

Geoff Adams

11 hours ago

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Drought causing high water prices- ADF

Rising irrigation water prices are being caused by the drought, the Australian Dairy Farmers believes. In a statement released this week, the ADF president, Terry Richardson said the Murray Darling basin had received the lowest rainfall on record in...

Geoff Adams

11 Oct 2019

News

Saleyards protest meeting in Gippsland

(By Jeanette Severs) Hundreds of dairy farmers attended a meeting at Darnum on Thursday night (October 3) to discuss why the Warragul saleyards - a specialist dairy cattle selling facility - was closing. Among the speakers were owner representative...

Geoff Adams

04 Oct 2019

Dairy News

Fonterra NZ posts big loss

Fonterra is scaling back how much milk it sources from Australian farmers after the NZ dairy giant posted a $NZ557 million ($A514 million) loss partly related to the drought across the ditch. The dual-listed dairy processor said an increase in...

Geoff Adams

01 Oct 2019

News

Unpacking the latest dairy report

Agriculture Victoria’s specialist Farm Business Economist Claire Waterman, Dairy Australia’s Farm Business Data Analyst, Jake Musson and independent farm consultants will be talking to farmers in the wake of the release of the Dairy Farm Monitor...

Geoff Adams

24 Sep 2019

Dairy News

Profit falls in Victorian survey results

The latest Victorian Dairy Farm Monitor report has shown varied performance across the three main dairy regions of the state. Northern Victoria has reported the worst year in the 13 years the Monitor has been reporting results. Agriculture...

Geoff Adams

18 Sep 2019

Dairy News

NSW dairy advocate announced

NSW Farmers’ has welcomed the appointment of Ian Zandstra as the first NSW Fresh Milk and Dairy Advocate. NSW Farmers’ Dairy Committee Chair Colin Thompson said Mr Zandstra’s wealth of experience throughout the dairy supply chain made him the...

Geoff Adams

05 Sep 2019

Dairy News

Farm trespass inquiry starts in Gippsland

By Jeanette Severs Farmers can still make submissions to the Inquiry into Impact of Animal Rights Activism on Victorian Agriculture, which began hearing verbal evidence at the first panel sitting, held at Bairnsdale today last week.. That was the...

Geoff Adams

26 Aug 2019

News

A2 profit up, but shares plunge

A2 Milk shares have dipped nearly 15 per cent after its 47 per cent rise in full-year profit disappointed traders who were expecting more. At 1051 AEST on Wednesday, August 21, the Kiwi company’s shares were down 14.4 per cent to an eight-week low...

Geoff Adams

21 Aug 2019

Management

Embracing technology a family trait

TECHNOLOGY HAS been a recurring theme for the seven generations of the Russell family. More than 135 years ago their pioneering ancestor, Daniel Gowing, worked the scenic Bega Valley with an innovative steam powered plough. Now descendant William...

Geoff Adams

20 Aug 2019

Dairy News

Consultation on cheese name trade deal

Australia’s dairy industry will continue to defend its right to call dairy products by their common food names after the Australian Government overnight announced a consultation process on a list of products that the EU wants to protect as...

Geoff Adams

13 Aug 2019

Dairy News

Milk price worry over Saputo’s Tasmanian bid

Allowing Saputo to buy the Tasmanian dairy processing plants could lead to farmers being paid lower prices, the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has found. The ACCC said it has “preliminary competition concerns” about dairy company...

Geoff Adams

08 Aug 2019

Dairy News

Opening prices high

Record opening prices should support better cash flow at the start of the dairy season, Internaional bank, Rabobank has found in its monthly agribusiness update. Dairy analyst, Michael Harvey reports national milk production, down to about 13 per...

Geoff Adams

08 Jul 2019

Dairy News

Fonterra lifts its price

Fonterra Australia has increased its 2019/20 average milk price to $6.80/kg of milk solids and also increased its 2018/19 average price. ‘‘We are increasing our farm-gate milk price for the 2019/20 season by 20 cents per kg MS, which brings our...

Geoff Adams

04 Jul 2019

Dairy News

Medallion dies

The Australian Holstein Sire MEDALLION (Bundalong Marks Medallion VG86) has died at the age of 13. Bred by Brian and Bill Anderson of Bundalong Holstein’s, Kongwak, Victoria, this son of another breed Legend, INFORMER was born in July 2005. His...

Geoff Adams

02 Jul 2019

Dairy News

ASIC takes Gary Helou to court

ASIC has started proceedings in the Federal Court against former managing director of Murray Goulburn Co-operative Gary Helou, and former CFO Bradley Hingle. The action alleges a failure to disclose to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) market...

Geoff Adams

26 Jun 2019

Dairy News

Murray Goulburn class action agreement

Legal firm Slater and Gordon has reached a conditional agreement with the company that was Australia’s largest milk supplier, Murray Goulburn and its subsidiary, to settle a class action on behalf of over a thousand Australian and international...

Geoff Adams

24 Jun 2019

Dairy News

New milk recall

A dairy company has been forced to recall milk sold in Victoria and parts of NSW for the second time in a week, amid contamination fears. Lactalis Australia on Thursday recalled eight milk varieties sold by Coles, Woolworths, IGA and other retailers...

Geoff Adams

21 Jun 2019