Milk plan fear
MURRAY Goulburn’s $300 million Koroit expansion is in doubt. By STEFF WILLS.
Murray Goulburn to revisit plans for $300m infant formula plant
Troubled dairy processor Murray Goulburn is reconsidering plans to build a $300 million infant formula and nutritional powders plant at Koroit in Victoria’s western district. By SUE NEALES.
Murray Goulburn writes to suppliers seeking price cuts
Murray Goulburn has written to all its suppliers seeking a 15 to 20 per cent cut in the prices they charge the troubled dairy giant, with an implied threat that if they don’t conform it may look elsewhere. By JOHN DURIE
Murray Goulburn gives farmers a little back on milk price
Embattled Murray Goulburn has boosted the milk price it pays farmers in an apparent attempt to stem the flood of major producers leaving Australia’s biggest dairy processor. By SUE NEALES.
Unpopular dairy scheme under review
Murray Goulburn is reconsidering its controversial support package for farmers after acknowledging that the package has not been well received.
Farmers bail out of dairy giant Murray Goulburn
More than 200 Victorian and Tasmanian farmers who supply Australia’s largest dairy processor Murray Goulburn with milk have quit the industry or switched to rival milk companies since the farmer-owned co-operative slashed its farmgate milk price retrospectively and without warning in late April. By SUE NEALES.
Dairy Australia dissembles, Murray Goulburn demands cease and desist
We understand that Dairy Australia, the industry body funded by a levy on farmers and devoted to helping them «achieve a profitable, sustainable dairy industry» has ceded to howls of protest emanating from Victoria’s rolling hills at its latest piece of research (its inputs and conclusions as logical as a kindergarten finger painting), the June 2016 Situation and Outlook Report. By Joe Aston
Dairy farmers face tight squeeze
High-cost dairy farmers face a tough outlook after industry behemoth Murray Goulburn set an opening farmgate price for the 2017 season of just $4.31 a kilogram, some 14 per cent below the $5 a kilo on offer from Bega. – By John Durie
Murray Goulburn slashes dairy prices for the coming season
Embattled milk processor Murray Goulburn has slashed the price it plans to pay suppliers for the next season, to $4.31 a kilogram for milk solids (kgms). Clint Jasper.
Dairy giants 'played chicken' with farmers
Beleaguered companies Murray Goulburn and Fonterra tried to run the gauntlet with global dairy, write agribusiness academics James Lockhart, Danny Donaghy and Hamish Gow. So how will they manage the fallout?