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11 Mar 10 | GENOMIC testing might be the great hope for dairy sire selection but it has thrown Jersey breeding programs around the world into chaos after findings that the dam of one of the breed’s most successful sires was not pure Jersey.
08 Mar 10 | Tough conditions in the Victorian dairy industry have cut almost 400 million litres from milk production in the first seven months of the 2009-10 season.  | CommentsComments (2)
Big cheeses miss out on record offers
08 Mar 10 | THIS year's Bega Cheese Pro Am is far from being a formal international dairy summit, but in its 19th year has proved to be something of an unofficial talkfest, according to The Australian Financial Review.  | Dairy cows pulled from Royal ... | MG continues to buy WCB shares
Outlook '10: Milk prices finally on the mend
03 Mar 10 | WORLD milk prices are predicted to rise and the Aussie milk price should stop its decline and make a small comeback, according to ABARE.   | MG continues to buy WCB shares | MG acquires 5pc stake in ...
Vic dairy herd free from EBL
03 Mar 10 | Victorian Agriculture Minister Joe Helper has announced that the one million head Victorian dairy herd has won a 15 year battle to be declared free from the virus Enzootic Bovine Leukosis (EBL).
Dairy cows pulled from Royal Melbourne
02 Mar 10 | Dairy cows will for the first time be missing when the livestock events are staged at this year’s Melbourne Royal Show in September.  | CommentsComments (1)
MG continues to buy WCB shares
02 Mar 10 | Murray Goulburn is understood to have continued to buy shares in Warrnambool Cheese and Butter on the market at $4.50 on Monday after picking up five per cent on Friday (the bulk of which was said to be from 452 Capital, one of the last institutions remaining in the stock).   | Warrnambool proves difficult to ... | Warrnambool rejects $4.35 bid
26 Feb 10 | Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Co. Limited (MGC) today confirmed that it had acquired close to a 5 per cent stake in Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company Holdings Limited (WCB).
ACCC looks at dairy merger
25 Feb 10 | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is investigating the impact of a potential merger between Murray Goulburn Co-operative and Warrnambool Cheese & Butter Factory, even though Warrnambool has emphatically rejected Murray Goulburn's latest offer.  | Warrnambool proves difficult to ... | WCB appoints new CEO
Is MG bid to be big cheese too pricey?
24 Feb 10 | AUSTRALIA'S last big dairy co-operative, Murray Goulburn, is again talking up its spurned $270 million takeover proposal for Australia's last listed dairy group, Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory. But it is going to take more than words to get the bid over the line.  | CommentsComments (1) | Warrnambool rejects $4.35 bid | WCB appoints new CEO
Warrnambool proves difficult to butter up
23 Feb 10 | MURRAY Goulburn's bid of $4.35 a share ($174 million) for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter – 45¢ a share higher than an offer made in December – was an attempt to break through the dairy company's stubborn resistance to its much-bigger suitor.  | Warrnambool Cheese in trading halt | Warrnambool rejects $4.35 bid
WCB appoints new CEO
22 Feb 10 | VICTORIA-based dairy producer Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB) as today appointed former Parmalat Australia chief executive David Lord as its new CEO.  | WCB posts $8.9m half-year profit | Decision looming for ...
Warrnambool rejects $4.35 bid
19 Feb 10 | The battle for the hearts and minds of Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB) shareholders still has a way to run after the WCB board this morning advised the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) that it had rejected a revised, $4.35 a share offer from Murray Goulburn Co-operative.   | WCB posts $8.9m half-year profit | Murray Goulburn ups the ante ...
Warrnambool Cheese in trading halt
18 Feb 10 | Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Co has this morning sought a trading halt on its shares pending an announcement by the company which is expected following a meeting today of the WCB board.   | Murray Goulburn ups the ante ... | Dairy's cautious optimism
Decision looming for Warrnambool Cheese
18 Feb 10 | WARRNAMBOOL Cheese & Butter Factory’s board is set to meet by Friday to decide the merits of Murray Goulburn’s latest takeover offer, believed to be priced at about $4.30 a share.  | WCB posts $8.9m half-year profit | Dairy's cautious optimism
MG second bid as Warrnambool turns finances around
17 Feb 10 | Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Co Ltd (WCB) suppliers will be feeling a little smug this week after the embattled regional milk processor posted a spectacular turnaround in its half year accounts, apparently vindicating its decision to dismiss Murray Goulburn’s recent takeover overtures.  | Fonterra ups payments to ... | Leitchville plant another ...
17 Feb 10 | Warrnambool chairman Frank Davis and managing director John Mclean yesterday forecast a full-year net profit for 2010 after it increased net profit from $1.4 million (after one-off costs) to $8.9 million in the six months ended December 31, despite a 14.7 per cent decline in sales to $203.8 million.  | Leitchville plant another ... | Talent dairy bull now a ...
Murray Goulburn ups the ante for Warrnambool
17 Feb 10 | Dairy processor Murray Goulburn Co-op has sweetened its offer for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter, which has forecast a return to profitability this year.   | Talent dairy bull now a ... | Dairymen being milked to death
Dairy's cautious optimism
15 Feb 10 | Australian dairy farmers should be cautiously optimistic over the coming months as milk prices improve and for most irrigators, water allocations look the best they have for four years.   | CommentsComments (1) | Dairymen being milked to death | Farmers first for Murray ...
Fonterra ups payments to farmers by 20c/kg
12 Feb 10 | FONTERRA has announced a price increase of 20 cents per kilogram of milk solids for dairy farmers who supply its manufacturing sites in Victoria and Tasmania.  | Dairymen being milked to death | Talent dairy bull now a ...
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