Victorian Farmers Federation to renew contract for cheap milk with supermarket Coles
The Victorian Farmers Federation will push forward with its endorsement of cheap milk by extending a deal with supermarket chain Coles.
Supermarkets not manipulating farm gate price with cheap milk: ACCC
Dairy farmers are angry about the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s decision not to take any action on dollar-a-litre milk.
Dairy’s ‘dirty secret’: it's still cheaper to kill male calves than to rear them
Dairy farms need female cows to produce milk but with little demand for male calves many farmers can’t afford to keep them beyond birth.
Cheap milk forces Qld farm closures
People were boycotting dollar milk and they did it for a month, two months, then slipped back …
Now at Whole Foods: Cheaper milk, 'farm fresh' Amazon Echo
A half-gallon of milk was 50 cents cheaper at a Whole Foods in New York. Ground beef was down by $2 a pound. And an organic avocado cost a buck less. By: JOSEPH PISANI
Consumers turn away from cheap milk
Consumers are continuing to back dairy farmers and snub the big supermarkets and their $1-a-litre discount milk strategy, with sales of supermarket private-label fresh milk plunging in the past six months. By SUE NEALES,
If you’ve got a beef with higher milk prices, here’s why
Cheap milk, that is. The cost of a gallon of milk on supermarket shelves was almost 6% higher in July compared to a year earlier. And prices could soon approach a record.
If you’ve got a beef with higher milk prices, here’s why
Cheap milk, that is. The cost of a gallon of milk on supermarket shelves was almost 6% higher in July compared to a year earlier. And prices could soon approach a record.