Dairy industry looks to rebuilding plan
AUSTRALIA’S dairy farmers, processors and manufacturers will start work next autumn on a co-ordinated national plan that will map out a future direction for the troubled industry.
Farmers urged to have say on code
People have been annoyed about things: here’s an opportunity to get it as close to right as possible.
Woolworths’ drought levy fund goes to just a handful of farmers
WOOLWORTHS is slapping a drought levy on Victorian milk to support mainly Queensland and NSW Parmalat suppliers, excluding hundreds more drought-affected dairy farmers across southern Australia.
Goulburn Murray Irrigation District to lose another 400,000ML
DAIRY farmers fear another shake-out in their numbers as temporary water prices stay high and the Mallee’s massive horticultural developments move to suck another 400,000 megalitres out of the Goulburn Murray Irrigation District.
Nervous farmers bracing for a trade war
Australian farmers are watching the escalating trade war between the United States and China nervously, with growing fears Australian food and fibre exports could get caught in the crossfire.
Victoria: Irrigation dairy farmers put at risk by dirty deal
The United Dairyfarmers of Victoria throws its support behind the Victorian Farmers Federation Water Council in the fight to protect Victorian farmers in the Murray Darling Basin.
Farmers fear food bowl will dry up under basin plan
Victorian farmers have warned the federal government and other states not to sacrifice the key food bowl of the Goulburn-Murray irrigation district around Shepparton in a political deal to keep the $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan on track.
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.
Dairy farmers criticise Coles Farmers' Fund milk at United Dairyfarmers of Victoria annual meeting
The Victorian Farmers Federation Coles Farmers’ Fund was in the firing line at last week’s United Dairyfarmers of Victoria annual meeting.
Coles milk fund in firing line
«This Coles thing is doing a deal with the devil.»