25/09/2008 | Motivation and inspiration will be the focus when young farmers and dairy representatives from across the state gather in Echuca on Melbourne Cup Day.
22/09/2008 | Innovation in dairying to cope with climate change will be a key theme at a Victorian DPI forum to be held in Kyabram next month.
17/09/2008 | THE spike in dairy returns is fuelling unprecedented prices for dairy heifer calves.
16/09/2008 | Victoria’s dairy industry bodies have shown their support for young farmers with the reinstatement of funding for the Young Dairy Development Program.
10/09/2008 | Novel dairy foods, functional foods, sustainability and process improvements are some of the exciting areas that could be under development by the inaugural recipient of the 2009 Innovation in Dairy Manufacturing Award.
9/09/2008 | AN excellent yarding of 175 milkers and springers, plus 83 chance-mated and unjoined heifers sold at the Elders-Alex Scott and Staff dairy sale at Warragul last Friday.
7/09/2008 | The financial performance of Australia's dairy producers improved in 2007-08 in the wake of higher milk prices, according to a new ABARE report.
5/09/2008 | National Foods has announced the signing of a conditional agreement to purchase the Launceston-based business, 'Hillwood Cheeses'.
5/09/2008 | South west Victoria and the adjacent south-east of South Australia is claiming the title as the country's largest dariy producer, now worth nearly $5 billion a year to the regional economy.
1/09/2008 | THE SOON-to-be new owners of Dairy Farmers Co-operative will have some serious brand repair work after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) today announced that it had obtained orders in the Federal Court against Australian Co-operative Foods, Dairy Farmers trading name, for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct.
29/08/2008 | The State Government will enter a $2.3 million partnership with Dairy Australia to assist dairy farmers increase production and profitability.
27/08/2008 | Australia’s only listed dairy processor, Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory (WCB) has produced a record financial result for the year ending 30 June 2008, with sales of $525 million, 41 per cent higher than last year and net operating profit after tax up 155pc to $24.5m.
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26/08/2008 | It's sire selection time on dairy farms across the country, with Australian Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme's spring release of Australian Breeding Values now available to producers make decisions about the sires to use over their herds in the coming months.
14/08/2008 | Graham and Robbie Radel's Mountain View Brown Swiss Stud from Biggenden, Qld, rewrote the record books on Tuesday when their five-year-old cow, Mountain View Impact 2, became the first Brown Swiss cow in history to be named supreme champion dairy cow at Brisbane Royal Show (the Ekka).
12/08/2008 | Victorian cooperative Murray Goulburn is reportedly going to enter a solo bid for Dairy Farmers, despite the collapse last week of its proposed joint venture with Italian processor Parmalat.
8/08/2008 | Parmalat has withdrawn from a joint ticket with Murray Goulburn to bid for Dairy Farmers Co-operative, a move that might signal the exit from Australia of the Italian dairy giant.
30/07/2008 | A group of young Victorian dairy farmers is tackling the labour shortage head on with an information day to be held today for employers and future employees.
25/07/2008 | The ACCC has accepted the National Foods-Warnambool Cheese undertakings in its bid for Dairy Farmers but has called for further input on the competing bid from the Murray Goulburn and Parmalat consortium.
21/07/2008 | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted legal proceedings in the Federal Court against Australian Co-operative Foods Limited for alleged false, misleading and deceptive conduct in the packaging of certain cheese products.
17/07/2008 | THE WORLD dairy market is still hot. Xcheque dairy industry analysts Dr Jon Hauser and Neil Lane said dairy’s continued bullish run was being reflected in Australian processors’ opening prices for 2008-09.