Dreams aren't plans
OPINION: Milking It reckons if you're National, looking at recent polls, the dream scenario is that the elusive economic recovery…
MANY DAIRY farmers in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, are caught in the same position as Trevor Mills a year ago. He was grappling with issues of farm scale on his 180-cow unit, trying to balance a need to increase the flexibility of his time against the economic realities of volatile milk returns and labour costs.
Dairy farmers searching for efficiencies in their operation know that homegrown, fully utilised pasture has always been the most cost-effective feed. Even before the current downturn, many farmers were not only looking at output ratios such as milk solids per cow, but also at feed efficiency ratios such as the cost of producing a megajoule of metabolisable energy per kg of dry matter.
OPINION: Milking It reckons if you're National, looking at recent polls, the dream scenario is that the elusive economic recovery…
OPINION: Sydney has a $12 million milk disposal problem.
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Two large milk processing plants in New Zealand are changing hands.