Dairy

Freedom Foods extends trading halt

Freedom Foods will not trade on the ASX until November 2 after the company extended its trading freeze. The company’s board said it believed investors required “comprehensive and up-to-date” information as to the impact of the historical issues...

Country News

Murray Goulburn shell company goes into liquidation

The remaining assets of former dairy co-operative, Murray Goulburn, have been placed into voluntary liquidation. Most of the assets of the once dominating dairy processor were sold to Saputo in 2018, but a shell company remained to finance...

Geoff Adams

Coles staff shortage leads to milk shortage

A shortage of staff at a key Coles Supermarkets distribution centre is holding up delivery of fresh milk to stores around Victoria. One Shepparton Coles supermarket was emptied of any fresh dairy milk on Saturday. As well as random shortages, the...

Geoff Adams

Coles staff shortage leads to milk shortage

A shortage of staff at a key Coles Supermarkets distribution centre is holding up delivery of fresh milk to stores around Victoria. One Shepparton Coles supermarket was emptied of any fresh dairy milk on Saturday. As well as random shortages, the...

Geoff Adams

Fonterra want FASL loans repaid as part of class action proceedings

The lawyers behind the class action against Fonterra for its price claw-back in 2016 are still on the lookout for registrations as Fonterra looks to get loans repaid as part of the court’s decision. It comes as Fonterra has issued legal action...

Rodney Woods

Murray Goulburn shell company goes into liquidation

The remaining assets of former dairy co-operative, Murray Goulburn, have been placed into voluntary liquidation. Most of the assets of the once dominating dairy processor were sold to Saputo in 2018, but a shell company remained to finance...

Geoff Adams

Spacing is critical to successful calf rearing, manual says

When it’s time to set up housing as part of your calf rearing practice, spacing of the calves is essential. That’s according to Dairy Australia’s Rearing Healthy Calves second edition manual, which says each newborn calf should have a space of at...

Rodney Woods

Dairy Australia a partner in smarter irrigation project

Dairy Australia is partnering with the cotton, sugar, grain and rice industries in a project to deliver new efficient water use technologies to Australian farmers. More than half of dairy farmers nationally use irrigation, and farms in some regions...

Jamie Salter

AWU says now is not the time for foreign labour

A Dairy Australia application to fill local jobs with foreign workers has been labelled “bizarre” by the Australian Workers Union. Since 2015, Dairy Australia has applied to the Department of Home Affairs on behalf of its members to fill jobs at...

Jamie Salter

Freedom Foods CEO resigns

Freedom Foods, which operates a dairy processing factory in Shepparton, has lost its chief executive officer, Rory Macleod.

Geoff Adams

A different way to farm

A burning desire to own land in his home state of Tasmania led Stephen Fisher on a journey he couldn’t possibly have foreseen. Mr Fisher is the driving force and director behind Circular Head Farms (CHF), a community-based investment group...

Sophie Baldwin

Reducing lameness in dairy cows

Do you find that your dairy cows have a higher incidence of lameness on your farm than you would like? Farmers are using prevention, early detection and treatment of lameness to achieve better outcomes in cow comfort, improved milk production and...

Jamie Salter

Freedom Foods stock in trading halt as board members leave

A trading halt has been placed on Freedom Foods stock after it was announced on June 24 that managing director and chief executive officer Rory Macleod is on leave until further notice. It comes on the back of the resignation of chief financial...

Rodney Woods

Grants to reduce energy use on dairy farms

Dairy farmers will receive new Federal Government grants to upgrade their farming equipment in order to reduce energy consumption. Dairy Connect chief executive officer Shaughn Morgan praised the initiative and encouraged dairy farmers to make use...

Jamie Salter

Dairy export values jump despite falling volume

The value of dairy exports in the year to April 2020 has jumped by 7.1 per cent, despite a 7.3 per cent reduction in the volume exported. The latest figures from Dairy Australia show a significant fall in the amount of butter, cheddar and skim milk...

Country News

Milk prices met with optimism from local farmers

Opening farm gate milk prices have been met with some optimism by dairy farmers around the region, with many hoping for a good season after years of drought and high production costs. This was the first time the mandatory dairy code of conduct was...

Country News

Class action filed against Fonterra for 2016 price clawback

Fonterra Australia will be heading to the courts as soon as next month, with dairy farmers wanting compensation for the money they lost due to the 2016 price claw-back. The class action case will be run by law firms Adley Burstyner and Harwood...

Rodney Woods

ACM’s Girgarre factory enters cheese market

Girgarre’s Australian Consolidated Milk factory plans to begin producing cheese in August. The factory will produce cheddar and mozzarella curd, in a move to optimise the use of milk solids. The cheese will mostly be sold in the domestic market to...

Jamie Salter

Senate told how to right the wrongs in the dairy industry

NSW Farmers presented at a hearing for the Senate inquiry into the ‘Performance of Australia’s dairy industry and the profitability of Australian dairy farmers since deregulation in 2000’. One June 19, NSW Farmers used the hearing to...

Jamie Salter