From August 30 2010
The past year has seen improvements in conditions for buying dairy feeds and improvements in dairy farmers’ business practices around buying feed.
These are some of the trends from the past 12 months, highlighted in the report, Dairy feeding 2010 - updates and insights, released recently by the ...
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Learn to tackle locusts
Murray Dairy’s Young Dairy Development Program together with the DPI will hold a series of locust workshops throughout northern Victoria to ...
From August 16 2010
Milk price announced
Burra Foods has announced an opening milk price of $4.75/kg milk solids, which works out to be about 36/litre.
This follows Fonterra’s ...
From June 14 2010
Super dairy
Five Leitchville dairy farms have been amalgamated into one by a company with ambitious plans to become the biggest producer of organic milk in ...
From June 7 2010
Dairy winner
UDV has named Tom Mills, an agricultural apprentice from Yanaki, as the winner of the VFF/Elders Insurance Dairy Apprentice of the Year award.
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From May 31 2010
Milk levy to increase
UDV members will be paying 0.06/litre to the organisation next season after an increase of 0.018/litre was agreed to at this year’s annual ...
From May 31 2010
Employer guide online
Most dairy employers want to do the right thing by their staff.
But it has not always been easy to know what the right thing involved, especially ...
From May 24 2010
Asses herd for an empty cows plan
Now is the time dairy farmers are looking at their herds’ not-in-calf rate and deciding what to do with their empty cows next season.
Dairy ...
From May 24 2010
Steamer to lunch
Northern Victorian and Riverina dairy farmers have the chance to take a break from their busy farms and see the Murray River from a different ...
From May 24 2010
Brassica fills gap
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Recent research by the FutureDairy project has shown that forage rape (Brassica napus) holds its nutritional quality for more than three months ...
From May 24 2010
Companies court growing Chinese market
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Dairy infant formula manufacturers Murray Goulburn Co-operative and Tatura Milk Industries presented their world-class products at a charitable ...
From May 24 2010
Review is urged
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A Senate enquiry by The Economics Reference Committee into competition and pricing in the Australian dairy industry has found a review of national ...
From May 24 2010
Water use probed
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With the likelihood of less water available in the future, how can dairies in northern Victoria maximise profitability?
There won’t be the ...
From May 17 2010
More better than one
Dairy farmers are advised to use a team of bulls to run with their herd rather than a select animal.
Australian Dairy Herd Improvement ...
From May 17 2010
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