One of Australia’s most advanced dairy aggregations, Coomboona Dairies in the Goulburn Valley, is being offered to the market as a whole or as two contiguous holdings.
PEAK dairy group Australian Dairy Farmers welcomed DairyBio co-director Dr David Nation as the new managing director of industry services body Dairy Australia.
DAIRY businesses are losing up to $364 million each year in employee turnover, with Australia’s peak dairy farmer group warning the problem will only get worse unless the federal Government acts immediately to solve the industry’s labour crisis.
An opening average milk price for the 2018/19 season of $5.75 per kilogram milk solids has been announced for all Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB) and Saputo Dairy Australia (SDA) suppliers in the Southern Milk Region.
Leading New Zealand vet, Neil Chesterton, visited the Murray region for a series of workshops and on-farm demonstrations focused on the prevention of lameness.
Burra Foods has announced an opening milk price range for the FY19 season of $5.60 - $5.90/kg Milk Solids, an 8% increase over last year’s opening price.
The global farmgate milk price cycle has turned and set the tone for a more bullish market, with a Southern Australia full-year price of AUD 6.40/kgMS now within reach for2018/19, according to Rabobank’s latest Dairy Quarterly report.
Parag Milk Foods, which owns Bhagyalakshmi Dairy Farm in Manchar – India’s largest private dairy farm – will send four of its dairy trainers to South Australia later this year to receive a mix of classroom and hands-on training from TAFE SA lecturers.