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OPINION: Despite what DairyNZ says, increasing production per cow or hectare can help to dilute costs and increase profitability.

Fonterra is expecting milk production worldwide to slow as the low price makes it unsustainable to milk cows.

Every time the milksolids payout drops, the industry starts talking about reducing production costs.

The recent visit by Professor Aalt Dijkhuizen, president of Topsector Agri and Food in the Netherlands, raised some interesting points about how New Zealand dairy farmers can learn from their Dutch counterparts.

Higher production is the key driver of regional economies, even though higher profit is important to farmers, says DairyNZ’s Rick Pridmore. 

NEW ZEALAND dairy farmers are more efficient and produce at least twice as much milk per hectare compared to 50 years ago, says the latest DairyNZ Economic Survey.

MARCH ESTIMATES for New Zealand milk flows are for a double-digit percentage increase over the prior year when the drought had taken a firm grip, says Rabobank.

CHINA'S DEMAND for dairy imports is set to grow for at least the next two years, as its local milk production struggles under structural change in the supply chain, a new industry report has found.

Westland Milk finished the season with a 5.3% increase in milk processed on last season, despite the drought on the West Coast.

Milk production will be boosted up by at least 6% next season, but meat production will take longer to recover from the drought, the BNZ forecasts in its Rural Wrap.