Tag: Dairy

A full-time, well-paid job plus a six-bedroom house with a renovated kitchen for rent at just $300 a week sounds like a good deal, yet two Sunshine Coast businesses can’t get any takers. Source: ABC Livestock No takers for k dairy job despite sweetener of cheap farmhouse rental

Today is a big day for dairy farmers. It’s World Milk Day and also the day processors announce their prices for the season ahead.  Source: ABC Livestock Prices announced for coming milk production season

Australian investment company Prime Value has paid $62.5 million for 2200 hectares of dairy country and around 4000 milkers plus 1000 young cattle to expand its holding in north-west Tasmania. Source: Beef Central Prime Value expands with part Van Dairy buy

The Chinese owners of Australia’s largest dairy operation sell a dozen farms after a tumultuous few years. Source: ABC Livestock Twelve Van Dairy properties back in Australian hands

South Coast Dairy is sold Australasian Dairies resulting in job losses with the closure of the Berry processing plant. Source: ABC Livestock South Coast Dairy forced to sell and cut jobs due to financial difficulties

An inquiry recommends a dedicated unit be established to support new dairy farmers in New South Wales. Source: ABC Livestock NSW dairy inquiry highlights challenges for young dairy farmers

“People felt deceived on every level” Five years on since the Australian dairy crisis  Source: ABC Livestock Five years since the Australian dairy industry’s darkest day

NSW Labor has committed to establishing a dairy and fresh food commissioner to provide an independent voice for the industry. Source: ABC Livestock Dairy farmers welcome Labor vow to give them a champion

A northern Victorian dairy farmer was fined $40,000 in the Shepparton Magistrates Court recently for animal cruelty to his dairy herd during two separate periods in 2017 and 2018 at his property near Invergordon. Source: Beef Central Vic dairy farmer fined ,000 for animal cruelty

Dairy Goat Society of Australia’s Ian Tyers says the miniature goats are huge in America and will one day become the number one breed in Australia. Source: ABC Livestock ‘Just like dogs’: New kid on the block as Nigerian Dwarf goats popular as pets and for high-quality milk

The EPA will investigate Van Dairy Limited’s compliance, after it was issued with environment protection notices and had an operating licence suspended because of overflowing animal waste systems.  Source: ABC Livestock Environment Protection Authority to investigate Tasmania’s largest dairy farm

An audit report reveals Van Dairy failed to upgrade its effluent systems to keep up with growing herd sizes, and allowed unqualified people to work on them. Source: ABC Livestock ‘How did it get to this?’: Fresh concerns about operating standards on Australia’s largest dairy farm

An industry report looking at the dairy sector identifies low input costs, solid demand and stable production as some of the factors driving confidence and income. Source: ABC Livestock Dairy farmers riding high on one of the best seasons in recent memory

Dairy farmers supplying dairy company Fonterra in Australia receive a pay rise today, coinciding with the company’s announcement of its interim financial results. Source: ABC Livestock Pay rise for dairy farmers as Fonterra announces m half-year Australian profit

Dairy giant Fonterra loses a long-running legal battle to block Bega Cheese from using the Bega brand on a range of peanut butter. Source: ABC Livestock Why your peanut butter has gone all the way to the Supreme Court

The Norco dairy co-operative has lifted the price its farmers by 2 cents per litre for the second half of the financial year. Source: ABC Livestock Norco suppliers to receive 77 cents per litre

A Queensland company that has developed technology to keep milk fresh for 60 days says the product is almost ready to purchase in supermarkets. Source: ABC Livestock Fresh milk that lasts 60 days expected to be on supermarket shelves by March

A Chinese-owned company that bought Australia’s biggest dairy farm has been accused of breaching an agreement with the seller, which claims it’s owed millions. Source: ABC Livestock Australia’s largest dairy farm sued by former owners over milk price crash

In an industry characterised by constant change, competing and evolving is key for dairy. Some changes are forced upon farmers, but proactive changes can deliver dividends. Source: ABC Livestock Change the only constant in an industry where not all can survive

Bega Cheese’s move to acquire household dairy names and shore up its Australian product portfolio positions it nicely for international expansion, say insiders. Source: ABC Livestock How a small dairy co-op grew to be a homegrown food heavyweight

Bega Cheese emerges from a trading halt, announcing it will buy Lion Dairy and Drink from Japanese beverage giant Kirin. Source: ABC Livestock Bega Cheese buys Lion Dairy from Japan’s Kirin

Western Australia’s only camel dairy has its sights set on the $56 billion infant formula market and if successful, it might turn a profit from Australia’s feral camel problem. Source: ABC Livestock From feral to food: Plans to milk Australian camels to make infant formula

Australia’s dairy industry wants to bring a milk program back into schools to help address a significant shortfall in the dairy intake of school-aged children. Source: ABC Livestock School milk: The dairy industry wants to bring it back

A major strategic plan shows Australia’s dairy industry could generate an additional $500 million in value at the farm gate within four years, and would grow to produce almost 1 billion litres more milk. Source: ABC Livestock Dairy could generate an extra 0m in five years, but first it must stick to the plan

Isolation is deepening our love affair for artisan cheese, and a lack of European imports is giving Australian cheesemakers a rare advantage. Source: ABC Livestock Aussie cheesemakers on a roll thanks to COVID-19 lockdown, expensive European imports

Both his grandfather and father have worked in the dairy industry. Now Spreyton local Adrian Wells is a dairy giant’s longest-serving employee in the country. Source: ABC Livestock ‘Cream running through my veins’: Dairy worker racks up half a century in the business

As the number of Queensland dairy farmers dips towards 280, one independent processor is bucking the trend, to risk taking on milk from another two farms. Source: ABC Livestock The independent milk processor growing as Queensland’s industry shrinks to around 280 dairy farmers

Kim Kardashian loves it. Australians will spend $25 per litre on it. But even as this wandering tribe faces extinction, the debate about selling their “holy” camel milk could tear this community apart. Source: ABC Livestock This tribe has the next celebrity superfood, but selling it risks the wrath of God

In good news for Queensland’s rapidly dwindling dairy industry, a successful Sunshine Coast cheesemaker will begin bottling milk for the first time tomorrow, providing incentive for two former farmers to re-enter the industry. Source: ABC Livestock Kenilworth Dairies now bottling milk offering hope to struggling Queensland farmers

For the first time in 14 years, a major WA dairy processor will make cheddar, but it won’t be enough to save the farmers behind the product. Source: ABC Livestock Why cheese won’t be enough to save this struggling industry

Regenerative pasture improvements help boost dairy farmers’ bottom line, giving one producer on the Sunshine Coast “hope for the first time”. Source: ABC Livestock Hope lies with radishes and chicken manure for sceptical dairy farmer

A start-up seaweed farm and one of Australia’s largest milk companies join forces to tackle livestock methane emissions. Source: ABC Livestock Seaweed the latest weapon against climate change for dairy farmers

Tasmanian dairy continues to shine with a 4.5 per cent production increase, producing 950 million litres of milk. Source: ABC Livestock Record milk production for Tasmanian dairy amid challenging year for the national industry

Raw milk advocates are questioning the coroner’s finding that drinking unpasteurised dairy caused the death of three-year-old in 2014. Source: ABC Livestock Six years after a toddler died after drinking it, advocates want raw milk back on the table

Dairy farmers in northern Victoria’s Torrumbarry Irrigation Area look below their feet for a solution to crippling water prices. Source: ABC Livestock Northern Victorian dairy farmers search for cheaper water

Milk processors published their opening prices for the new season yesterday for the first time, as required by the industry’s new code of conduct. Source: ABC Livestock Historic release of milk prices draws mixed response from dairy farmers

Dairy farmers are told the price they will receive from milk processors under a new regime that outlaws retrospective price cuts. Source: ABC Livestock Milk prices revealed in first test of mandatory dairy code of conduct

The nation’s largest organic dairy company, Organic Dairy Farmers of Australia, is owned by farming families which administrators say are owed millions. Source: ABC Livestock Australia’s largest organic dairy company in the hands of administrators, owing millions

For a northern Victorian camel farmer, demand for the rare milk continues to be an udder delight. Source: ABC Livestock Camel milk producer sees bump in demand for allergen-free, vitamin-rich dairy equivalent

A Queensland dairy farmer says the Dairy Code of Conduct is ‘worthless’ in its current state after negotiations with a processor for a new milk contract failed. Source: ABC Livestock ‘Still being dictated to’ says dairy farmer of ‘worthless’ Code of Conduct

Farmers want a 30 cent to 40 cent levy imposed on dairy products to ensure industry has a future. Source: ABC Livestock Push for new dairy levy gains support

Cressida Cains’ industry innovation has been recognised at the 2020 New South Wales’ Rural Women’s Award. Source: ABC Livestock A NSW dairy farmer has been awarded for her efforts to bring profits back to the farm gate

Every three days this buffalo dairy farmer says “it’s devastating” as he dumps thousands of litres of quality milk — the demand from restaurants and cafes is evaporating due to pandemic restrictions. Source: ABC Livestock ‘We can only go on so long’: Buffalo dairy farmer dumps milk, fears for industry’s future

Not exactly a case of a cow stuck in a well, but milking times were depleting the congregation at Freestone Uniting Church — until service times were shifted. Source: ABC Livestock Country church moves service to after milking time, draws a crowd

In a paddock in rural Australia are five calves that look just like any others. But they’re not — they’re considered “biological hazards”. And this is the story of how they got here. Source: ABC Livestock ‘Biological hazard’: GM cows and the experiment that went wrong

Insatiable Asian for demand for Australian baby formula has sparked a radical proposal from a Chinese-backed company to build a $1 billion dairy and milk powdering plant in Western Australia. Source: ABC Livestock Effluent-powered dairy to target Asian baby formula market

Queensland dairy farmers who have survived deregulation and dollar-a-litre milk are finally being paid closer to their break-even point by all but one major processor. Source: ABC Livestock The rising cost of keeping Queensland dairy farmers in business

US research trials into the use of a feed additive designed to moderate greenhouse gas emissions have produced a 25 percent reduction in enteric methane in dairy cattle. The compound did not affect lactational performance of the cows and in fact increased their feed efficiency per unit of milk yield. The sensory properties of milk… Read more »

Less than a year after the end of $1-a-litre milk, Western Australia’s dairy industry is facing an exodus of farmers because of low farmgate prices, with an industry group saying the price hike paid by consumers is not being passed on to farmers. Source: ABC Livestock ‘Don’t want to see them go’: Cows sent… Read more »

In what is being seen as another nail in the coffin for Queensland milk suppliers, a French-owned dairy business is shutting its Rockhampton factory at the end of the month, sacking all 47 of its workers. Source: ABC Livestock ‘Massive blow to Queensland’s dairy industry’: Workers to lose jobs as Lactalis factory shuts

A major restructure looms for the Australian dairy industry, however some state-based advocacy organisations are concerned the proposal misses the mark. Source: ABC Livestock Dairy industry digests plan to consolidate governance

Consumers could see a shortage of flavoured milks, yoghurt and custards, as a direct result of the drought and fires, the NSW Farmers Association says. Source: ABC Livestock Drought, fires dry up chocolate milk, yoghurt supplies as farmers pushed to the brink

Already reeling from the death of father-son dairy farmers Robert and Patrick Salway, the dairy industry could take another blow — ‘devastating’ milk shortages. Source: ABC Livestock Supermarkets told to raise milk prices as dairy farming industry ‘devastated’ by fires

Gympie dairy farmer Peter Rough says he doesn’t want to do it, but the drought is sending him broke, and with many other dairies facing a similar situation across Australia the industry says milk could soon be in short supply. Source: ABC Livestock Dairy farmer says sending herd to slaughter is ‘the last resort’… Read more »

Beginning today, the horror caused by retrospective price cuts in 2016 will now be banned under the new mandatory code of conduct. Source: ABC Livestock Dairy code of conduct launches guaranteeing prices, banning retrospective cuts

Cheese lovers are being urged to return or dispose of camembert and brie varieties which have been found to include high levels of the E. coli bacteria. Source: ABC Livestock Cheeses recalled because of E. coli levels found during routine testing

A dairy farming couple is forced to drain nearly 4,000 litres of milk — over 11 milkings — after bushfires left their property without electricity for days. Source: ABC Livestock Farmers pour 4,000l of milk down the drain as bushfires cut power

Family-run dairy farms are fuming after regulations they were told would protect them from unscrupulous milk processors appear set to do the opposite. Source: ABC Livestock Dairy farmers say regulations meant to protect them appear set to do the opposite

Challenged by animal activists over the slaughter of newborn male calves, some dairy farmers are marketing older calves as veal to the ethical consumer. Source: ABC Livestock Meet the farmer giving unwanted dairy calves a longer life, increasing their value as veal

A Queensland great grandmother recalls the challenges of life on the land as she celebrates a century in the rural town of Biggenden. Source: ABC Livestock Across 100 years in the one town, Ivy has seen drought, flood, and a declining dairy industry

Two former senior Murray Goulburn executives are expected to appear before the Federal Court early next year, after a judge dismissed their motion to have the proceedings thrown out today. Source: ABC Livestock Former MG executives’ bid to shrug off legal action dismissed by Federal Court

Another Queensland dairy farmer forced to send his herd to the meatworks says it may not have come to that if major supermarkets had passed on milk price increases. Source: ABC Livestock ‘Dirty, rotten, mongrel bastards’: Farmer says he may not have closed if supermarkets passed on milk price increase

Coastal dairy farms are culling their herds because they can not afford to feed them while they and their communities feel the flow-on effect of drought. Source: ABC Livestock ‘Buy local and pray for rain’ says struggling coast dairy farmer

A dairy company that accused foreign workers of owing rent after allegations of underpayment arose has agreed to an out-of-court settlement. Source: ABC Livestock Dairy company reaches settlement over foreign worker underpayment allegations

Fonterra has announced a loss of more than half a billion dollars and called on its Australian business to “stand on its own two feet” as the dairy company shifts its focus to its New Zealand operations. Source: ABC Livestock Fonterra rings up 2m loss, announces focus will shift across the ditch

Australians love and will pay top prices for proper coffee, stinky cheese, and top-of-the-range wines and olive oils. Now butter has joined that list. Source: ABC Livestock Chefs say Australian butter tastes like ‘salt and water’, so these producers are fighting back

Diana Gibson has been her husband’s “eyes” for many years, but now her own health is failing with Parkinson’s disease. But despite everything, Harry still tends the cows. Source: ABC Livestock Blind dairy farmer Harry Gibson and wife Diana have made it work despite the odds

Family-run dairy manufacturer Brancourts has gone into administration and there will be an immediate impact on jobs at its two factories in Victoria and NSW. Source: ABC Livestock 124-year-old dairy processor Brancourts goes into voluntary administration

One family has been dairying for 100 years and another is getting back in the game. What is it that keeps them so keen in a struggling industry? Source: ABC Livestock Meet the families keeping the Australian dairy industry dream alive