Farmers could get better milk price: Bega

Mr Irvin said the first-half result was strong considering a very wet winter, a highly competitive retail environment, and significant disruption in infant formula supply channels into China

Farmers Milk Price ActionAdley BurstynerFebruary 23, 2017Dairy Farmers

Murray Goulburn: Cloud over regional dairy factories

Speculation the co-operative may be forced to close one or more of its sites continues, as it deals with a significant drop in milk supply after slashing farmgate milk prices last year.

Dairy imports surge as exports stagnate

While Australia dairy exports have stagnated at $3 billion or less for the past 17 years, imports have surged from $337 million in 2000 to almost $1.67 billion last year.

Farmers Milk Price ActionAdley BurstynerFebruary 22, 2017Dairy Farmers

Eight months on and still gutted

The couple estimate the price crash cost them at least $200,000 in lost assets (mainly through forced cattle sales), a figure that will take years and years for them to recuperate.

Murray-Darling Basin Plan: Streams of discontent on river plan.

Those advocating environment say water recovery must continue, while others argue the water recovery thus far is devastating the social fabric of communities heavily reliant on irrigated industries.

Hume Dam Flood ActionAdley BurstynerFebruary 9, 2017Hume Dam Flood Action

THE dairy industry’s newest player has guaranteed no step-downs on its opening price as it starts to entice supply for next season

The Union Dairy Company — a joint venture between Warrnambool’s meat processing business The Midfield Group and global agriculture giant Louis Dreyfus Company — has a processing capacity of 220 million litres of milk

Farmers Milk Price ActionAdley BurstynerFebruary 9, 2017Dairy Farmers, Adley Burstyner, Murray Goulburn

Gary Helou contradicts himself, and Murray Goulburn, on China impact

True to form, Helou, first and foremost, defended his honour, denying he misled the market ahead of the dairy group's cataclysmic downgrade of April 27 last year (he fell on his sword that same morning).

"Not my fault" Mr Helou wiped his hands of the disastrous cash clawback program

Just 48 hours later Gary Helou had left the co-op, with $10m in pay and perks, and farmers were hit with retrospective price cuts that forced many to cull herds and some to leave the industry.

Gary Helou said he "did not mislead" in the lead-up to the April 2016 announcement.

In his first public comments since leaving Murray Goulburn on the same day the cuts were made, Gary Helou said he "did not mislead" in the lead-up to the April 2016 announcement.

Irrigators show dark side of Murray flood

“We don’t want more flooding events that ruin crops and livelihoods, but that’s what we will get if the approach to the Basin Plan is not changed... nor do we want to see any more of these hypoxic blackwater events that kill native fish, birds and other animals that drink the deadly water."

Hume Dam Flood ActionAdley BurstynerFebruary 2, 2017Hume Dam Flood Action

Video: The Four Government Investigations around the FMG Milk Price Clawbacks.

A DETAILED VIDEO discussion by David Burstyner on the status of the The Four Government Investigations around the FMG Milk Price Clawbacks. Please take the time to watch and share this important message.

Murray Darling Basin Plan: Irrigators enlist own consultants

AN INDEPENDENT study of the impact of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in NSW’s Murray region has been commissioned as irrigators take matters into their own hands

Hume Dam Flood ActionAdley BurstynerFebruary 1, 2017Hume Dam Flood Action

Murray Goulburn loses more suppliers

At a recent supplier meeting, dairy farmers were told MG might have to close four factories if it lost more milk.