At the prestigious 2017 Dairy Industry Association of Australia (DIAA) Awards, Beston won the title Best Cheddar Cheese in Australia and the Christian Hansen Cup for its Beston Pure Foods (Edwards Crossing) Matured Cheddar Cheese.
DataGene – the dairy industry’s new organisation to drive herd improvement – has two new tools to make it easier for farmers to use herd records for management decisions.
Murray Goulburn has announced an increase in the 2017/18 season opening Southern Milk Region Farmgate Milk Price to $5.20/kilogram of milk solids (kg MS).
Australian dairy industry advocacy group Dairy Connect has called for a truth in labelling ‘crackdown’ on processed plant liquids sold to retail consumers as ‘milks’.
We can be confident that the opening prices of both Bega and Warrnambool reflect the steady upward improvements we have seen in world market prices over the past 6 months.
Three south west WA dairy farmers whose previously extended contracts with Parmalat’s Harvey Fresh were due to expire at the end of June have had these extended by a further six months, until January 2018.
Dairy Australia’s latest Situation and Outlook report highlights how the difficult 2016/17 season experienced by many farmers in the southern export focused states.