Adequate returns vital to livestock production sustainability: TropAg 2019

In this piece for The Conversation, University of Melbourne's Professor of Cattle and Sheep Production Medicine, Andrew Fisher takes a look at the big issues impacting in our dairy industry.

Milk producers ramp up use of beef semen.

Sales of beef semen to dairies has gone through the roof.

Judging for the 2019 Jersey Australia/Semex Great Southern and Great Northern Challenges will start on November 17.

Does the mandatory dairy code of conduct meet expectations?

Drought and intense competition for milk hurts Fonterra's intake volumes

Dairy farmers this month have a last chance to comment on an industry code of conduct due to become law in January and also to comment to another Senate committee inquiry looking at possible reintroduction of a milk floor price as part of a wider review.

Each scholarship is valued at $10,000 per annum for up to three years.

Drought-driven high stockfeed prices could be costing Western Australian dairy farmers between three and four cents per litre more of their farmgate milk price margin this season than in previous seasons.