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Mark Julian, Pāmu Farms.
Pāmu Farms’ dairy production has gone well in the first six months of the 2018-19 season, says the general manager dairy, Mark Julian.
Until the end of December it was about 6% ahead of the previous 2017-18 season, like for like, excluding one additional farm, he told Dairy News.
“Climatic conditions have been favourable in most regions with Central Plateau having great conditions to mid-year. However Northland started with a wet, cold spring then flooding before Christmas.”
His comments follow the release of Pāmu Farms’ (Landcorp Farming) half-year results to December 31, 2018. It has declared a net profit after tax of $29 million for the half year versus $21m for the half year ended December 31, 2017.
Chief executive Steven Carden says the $5m increase was mainly due to a $4m increase in milk revenue and small increases in livestock and forestry.
Julian says in the dairy division about 50,000 cows were milked and produced 10M kgMS to the end of December. They are targeting 17.5M kgMS for the season.
Julian says Pāmu seeks ways to increase revenue from its farms, “including options for creating quality dairy beef calves for the Pāmu livestock business; we are succeeding in this using Focus Genetics Stabiliser sire.”
The company sells its Pāmu brand organic milk powder in New Zealand and China and is looking to sell a milk powder branded ‘One Farm’, made from its exclusively grass-fed farm Achilles near Taupo.
“We will also expand our organics, winter milk and A2 farm footprint in the coming season,” he sais. “And this season over 30% of our farm systems [have quit] conventional spring calving.
“Pāmu is also [achieving] best standards in milk production, for example, Pāmu's five Canterbury farms were the first multi-farm business to achieve Synlait’s ‘Lead with Pride’ standards.”
Pāmu sees its Spring Sheep business meeting its targets and the company is creating substantial demand in international markets for this alternative dairy product, Julian says.
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