National Rural News

Aust dairy losing to NZ in China

3:00 AM | THE Australian dairy industry is losing out to New Zealand in the massive, growing Chinese market, according to the managing director of Australia’s largest dairy company Murray Goulburn Co-operative, Gary Helou.

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Dairy industry up in arms

11 Feb 12 | THE Federal government’s response to last year’s Senate inquiry into the supermarket milk pricing war has been slammed by the Australian dairy industry and Federal politicians wary of Coles’ and Woolworths’ market dominance. | Dairy suffers while govt ... | Strong outlook for global ...

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Gillard Govt turns its back on dairy farming families: QDO

07 Feb 12 | THE Queensland Dairyfarmers’ Organisation (QDO) has slammed the Federal Government’s responses to the Senate Economics References Committee’s 2011 final report of the Inquiry into the impacts of supermarket price decisions on the dairy industry and Milking it for all it’s worth – competition and pricing in the Australian dairy industry as being pathetic.

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Strong outlook for global dairy: Rabobank

03 Feb 12 | THE global dairy sector looks set to be characterised by a future of solid market growth – to some extent the envy of the food world, according to a new industry report from Rabobank. | Milk wars can't last | WCB in new brand deal with Coles

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Dairy Poll gets mixed reaction

03 Feb 12 | VICTORIAN dairy farmers will now be considering what box they will be ticking in the 2012 Dairy Poll, a decision that will impact the Dairy Australia’s future funding.

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UDP takeover 'significant' move

03 Feb 12 | SOUTH Australia's dairy industry marked a significant day this week as Lion handed over its cheese-making operations at Murray Bridge and Jervois to independent Victorian company United Dairy Power. | Fortunes turn at Mt Jagged | Industry players look beyond ...

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More money for milk

31 Jan 12 | VICTORIAN dairy farmers were beaming last week, thanks to milk companies lifting their farm-gate prices.

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Holstein heifer to $28,000

29 Jan 12 | TASMANIAN dairy farmer Jayde Lee had her eyes set firmly on the top-priced Holstein heifer at last Wednesday's Semex Spectacular Sale at Tatura, even before she left the Island State.

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Jersey breed on a roll

28 Jan 12 | WHEN the final deliberations from the judges were collated at International Dairy Week on Thursday, a gasp of excitement was heard from the gathering of Jersey enthusiasts in the crowd.

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Driving Great Ocean flows

28 Jan 12 | THE launch of a new supplier-owned milk brand in Coles supermarkets looks like good news for southern dairy farmers – but the supermarket milk price war shows no sign of abating.

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Qld dairy farmers count cost of milk wars

26 Jan 12 | WHILE the nation lights its barbeques and toasts Australia Day this week, dairy farmers will be noting the one-year anniversary of the brutal retail milk price war, and its disastrous impacts over the last 12 months, on top of the severe impacts from natural disasters which savaged all Queensland dairying regions last year. |