China export ban threats could be saved by Australia’s baby formula industry
The dairy industry will meet with agriculture minister David Littleproud in a phone hook-up from Canberra on Wednesday night, to discuss a possible threat to one of Australia’s key exports.
Shadow Agriculture Minister Joel Fitzgibbon calls on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to aid dairy sector
ROCK bottom prices for generic milk are a leading symptom of market failure, with the Federal Opposition calling for reform.
How the Australian dairy industry responded to COVID-19 crisis
The Australian dairy industry first identified COVID-19 as a potential threat in early January.
Bushfire farm grants of $75,000 ‘a start’ but won’t go far in ‘mammoth task’ to rebuild amid fodder shortage
Ten weeks ago, David and Carolyn Duff lost 30 years worth of infrastructure in a bushfire at their Toorooka property west of Kempsey on the NSW Mid North Coast.
The price of milk and groceries will be impacted by Australia’s ongoing bushfires
Farmers who produce everything from meat to milk have been decimated by bushfires. The PM says the cost to consumers is about to be passed on.
‘Morrison, step up!’: Desperate dairy farmer who spent 13 hours defending his property from fires makes impassioned plea for help
Dairy farmer’s urgent plea for supplies, livestock feed, generator, electricians
Spent 13 hours fighting ground fire, airborne white fire above the eucalypts
Begs Prime Minister to learn to manage the bush to prevent future catastrophes
Climate protesters prevented hazard reduction burns in the area in September
Aboriginal people managed fires for 40,000 years without modern equipment
Australia fires: Scott Morrison booed after saying milk being poured down hills is a ‘tragedy’
Disaster ‘will continue to go on until we can get some decent rain’, says premier.
Why dairy needs a milk floor price and decent code of conduct
It’s been 20 years since John Howard’s Coalition Government, deregulated Australia’s dairy industry.
Clothes pegs full of unpaid bills: How the drought is costing business
Bega chairman Max Roberts was in the kitchen of a farmhouse a couple of weeks ago when he was presented with some clothes pegs.
Nationals leader Michael McCormack acknowledges snafu over Hanson dairy deal
Nationals leader Michael McCormack has admitted his party should have better handled agriculture minister Bridget McKenzie’s bring-forward of the planned dairy code.
