Dairy Industry, Products and News
All primary industries ministers have agreed that any major changes to animal welfare regulations for live cattle exports will only be made after industry consultation. The state and territory ministers met with Federal Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig in Perth yesterday to hammer out protocols for live exports, including for goats and sheep. Western Australian Agriculture [...]
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With food prices constantly rising, the average family is facing cutbacks and using budget brands to get food on the table, even when it comes to healthy food. To give readers a better idea of the state of food prices, the Wairarapa Times-Age will compare prices at Masterton New World, Countdown and Pak’n Save every [...]
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By April Dávila in Life As a Human In January of this year, while procrastinating on Facebook, I followed a link to an article reporting on evidence that there may be health effects associated with consuming Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) corn. Clicking on that link was one of those moments on which I look back [...]
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EVERY Australian dairy farmer knows that producing premium quality milk is one of the keys to profitability, and it is a case of ‘persistence pays’, especially with teat disinfection practices. Most dairy farmers are paid the top price if their milk has a bulk milk cell count of less than 250,000, and this is largely [...]
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Dairy farmers in the south west of Western Australia are wondering why their co-operative hasn’t paid them for last month’s milk. Producers selling milk to the Challenge dairy co-op are still waiting to be paid for their September contract. Challenge directors contacted farmers last Thursday to assure them the money would be paid by the [...]
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The dairy industry has slammed the credibility of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority guide and wants it to be withdrawn and replaced with factual and better-balanced proposals. Australian Dairy Industry Council chair Wes Judd said the guide had created confusion and increased the uncertainty surrounding water security and availability for the Basin’s dairyfarmers and their communities. [...]
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By Paul McBeth Oct. 20 (BusinessDesk) – Fonterra Cooperative Group will spend $42 million on a new dairy farm in China as it looks to build its presence in the world’s most populous nation. The world’s biggest dairy exporter and the Yutian County Government formally agreed to develop a new farm in the Hebei province, [...]
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Fonterra Co-operative Group agreed to sell its Brownes dairy business to DairyWest, which is owned by Australian private equity shop Archer Capital. Brownes’ business (which are based in Western Australia) makes and sells milk, yogurt and other dairy products. PRESS RELEASE Fonterra today announced it has signed a binding agreement to sell its Brownes dairy [...]
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Dairy farmers last night welcomed the move by Tesco to increase the farmgate price of milk to the 800 producers in its sustainable dairy group by 1.28p to 28.18p a litre from October 1. It is hoped the increase will trigger price rises across the board by other processors who have been dragging their feet [...]
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Irish food industry employees have questioned the ability of the dairy sector to meet the challenge of increasing milk output 50 per cent by 2020. Earlier in the summer the Irish government launched a policy document called Food Harvest 2020 in which it set out a vision for the food and dairy sector over the [...]
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The Hong-Kong-based company seeking to acquire the Crafar family farms says it’s sticking with those proposals but shelving wider-ranging plans for New Zealand investment. Natural Dairy had been intending to invest $1.5 billion in New Zealand dairy farming and processing operations. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange has raised shareholding issues with Natural Dairy. To resolve [...]
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – The cause of a mystery eye ailment that struck about 50 visitors to a dairy pavilion at an agricultural show in Australia has been traced — to cow urine. The Royal Adelaide Show had to close its dairy cattle pavilion after an rising number of people reported sore eyes when visiting the [...]
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