Sentences with phrase «australian dairy farmers»

And while Australian dairy farmers are hurting from an oversupply, China has signalled it can't get enough.

PETER RYAN: And while changing economic forces are hurting Australian dairy farmers with plunging commodity prices, Gao Yingxin says China can't get enough dairy products and will want more as its demographics continue to change.

The Federal Government has promised a competitive free trade deal for Australian dairy farmers.

President of Australian Dairy Farmers, Noel Campbell, says it wants more access to seasonal workers from the Pacific Islands and also people on holiday visas.

Mr Robb has given Australian dairy farmers an assurance that he is aiming to get them an equal footing with their New Zealand competitors, who finalised a free trade agreement with China several years ago.

David Inall is the new chief executive officer of Australia's peak advocacy group for dairy farmers, Australian Dairy Farmers (ADF).

Supports submissions of NFF and Australian Dairy Farmers Ltd..

Mr Bolles is currently Deputy Chair The University of Melbourne FBE Alumni Council, Board member and Audit Committee Chair Road Trauma Support Services Victoria, Independent Chair Australian Dairy Farmers Audit, Risk and Compliance; and Remuneration Committees, Advisory Board member The Salvation Army State Social Command Victoria, Prequalified Audit and Risk Committee Independent Member for NSW Government, Registered Director Tasmanian Government Department of Treasury and Finance, past member of CPA / Victorian Government Problem Gambling Advisory Board and of others.

Australian dairy farmers are already benefiting from an improvement in global diary market conditions, which has led to rising farmgate prices, and the major dairy processors are strongly urging them to invest in boosting their milk production.

Submissions closed on 13 March 2015; five submissions were received (NZ Food & Grocery Council, Office of the Australian Small Business Commissioner, Law Council of Australia, Australian Dairy Farmers and Retail & Supplier Roundtable).

AUSTRALIAN dairy farmers should aim to boost national milk production by six billion litres within five years, according to Murray Goulburn.

There are a number of smaller processors and acquirers including The Union Dairy Company (backed by The Midfield Group and global agricultural merchant Louis Dreyfus), Beston, Bega, Australian Dairy Farmers Corporation and Australian Consolidated Milk.

Australian dairy farmers, who aired similar concerns about the level of payments they receive from dairy companies, were told at a conference last week that the price they receive for their milk is predominantly influenced by international markets.

Australian dairy farmers have been warned prices are on their way down amid a rising tide of world milk supply.

Industry group Australian Dairy Farmers President Simone Jolliffe said farmers were «absolutely reeling» from the price cuts.

Australian dairy farmers have been warned that prices are on their way down amid a rising tide of world milk supply.

In «Farmers backed in Coles milk battle» (Herald Sun, 5 April 2011), Matt Johnston claims that the Australian Dairy Farmers group «is canvassing financial support to bankroll a case against Coles, accusing the supermarket giant of predatory pricing».

Australian dairy farmers are battling to survive an industry - wide crisis, after processors dramatically cut milk prices in response to a global oversupply of milk.

According to peak industry group Australian Dairy Farmers the dairy sector is Australia's third - largest rural industry worth a total of $ 13 billion.

Milk from two Western Australian dairy farmers left without contracts is being transported to Victoria at a cost of $ 40,000 to prevent it going to waste.

Mr Joyce said the reported comment would be a very foolish thing for any person to say, considering the hurt so many Australian dairy farmers were feeling.

«The fact is that, for some time, the price paid to Australian dairy farmers for milk did not reflect the reality of the international market,» Ms Swales, who runs the country's second largest milk processor, told The Australian Financial Review this week.

Australian dairy farmers were surprised and angered when both companies reduced their farm gate prices from $ 5.60 per kg of dairy solids to between $ 4.75 and $ 5.00 per kg in the past month.

Australian dairy farmers are being paid too much for their milk, says the boss of the world's biggest milk exporter, Fonterra.

The rhetoric suggested Australian dairy farmers were set to tap into rivers of gold thanks to a milk exporting boom.

Australian Dairy Farmers president Noel Campbell told Fairfax Media last month that most farmers operated on a $ 5 to $ 5.50 a kilogram milk price to cover their costs of production.

Murray Goulburn, however, says its Australian dairy farmer - owners are being disadvantaged because they need approval from the Australian Competition Tribunal — a process that could take up to six months.

Gippsland, Victoria, Australia About Blog A blog about the day to day life of an Australian dairy farmer.

Not exact matches

In the Australian drinking milk market the two major players are multinationals, Japanese - owned Lion (with the Pura and Dairy Farmers brands) and French - owned Parmalat (with the Pauls brand).

South Australian and Victorian dairy farmers have raised concerns about the ACCC's involvement in the MG sale.

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is looking at new ownership models, for its Australian farmers.

The nation's biggest dairy exporter on Wednesday issued a notice of meeting for May 8, at which the Victorian co-operative's farmers will vote on a capital restructure proposal that includes listing a unit trust on the Australian Securities Exchange.

The world's biggest dairy exporter, Fonterra, told Fairfax Media last week Australian farmers were being paid too much for their milk.

So is it game over for dairy farmers, who just a few years ago were riding high on the prospect of massive Chinese demand, and the sense Australia was the only place to be, as international players piled with eye - watering corporate deals in to guarantee a piece of the $ 13 billion Australian dairy industry?

A group of about 600 farmers, calling itself Farmer Power, has already called for an independent review of the Australian dairy industry.

«The burden of the consequences of Murray Goulburn's reckless actions is falling disproportionately upon dairy farming families and that's not fair,» Mr Fitzgibbon, who was in Tasmania on Tuesday meeting with dairy farmers, told The Australian Financial Review.

The only way to have a sustainable and strong Australian dairy industry was for farmers to receive «timely and transparent price guidance», she said.

The chief executive of the $ C13 billion ($ 12.7 billion) Canadian dairy giant will reach out to Australian farmers with a pledge of capital investment and other incentive programs to support a swelling of the region's milk pool.

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra will cut the price it pays its Australian farmer suppliers this season.

This optimism was borne out in a recent survey of Australian farmers by rural lender Rabobank, which found positive sentiment in the sheep and beef sectors, «as graziers fetch historically high prices for lamb, mutton, wool and beef» along with improving sentiment in dairy and with cotton producers «increasingly upbeat».

Media: See John Durie, «Saputo has to spill some milk to get MG in the fast lane» (The Australian, 2 March 2018), Carrie LaFrenz and Brad Thompson, «ACCC has issue with Victorian dairy plant in Saputo, Murray Goulburn deal» (AFR, 1 March 2018), Peter Hemhill and Simone Smith, «Saputo - Murray Goulburn deal: ACCC flags concerns» (The Weekly Times, 1 March 2018), Clint Jasper, «Competition watchdog raises concern over $ 1.3 b foreign takeover of Murray Goulburn» (ABC Rural, 1 March 2018), Sue Neales, «Saputo rebuffed on Murray Goulburn $ 1.3 bn bid over Koroit plant» (The Australian, 2 March 2018), Darren Gray, «Mega-milk deal sparks ACCC concern for farmers» (SMH, 1 March 2018).

Farmers have been asking why Australian dairy prices were not keeping up to those in the European Union or New Zealand.

Forty per cent of Australian production is exported, so as the dollar falls the returns to dairy farmers will get better.

WAFARMERS» dairy section has rejected an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) assertion $ 1 - a-litre supermarket milk does not directly impact farmer profitability in WA.

Australia is not alone in investing in dairy processing to supply surging demand in Asia, and Australian farmers are not yet confident they can make a profitable living on the prices being offered domestically.

The deal, which Murray Goulburn has said is key to its survival, was cast into doubt last month when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the takeover could leave some dairy farmers in the state of Victoria, the country's largest milk - producing region, with little choice when selling their milk.

He was more concerned about protecting farmers» milk payments and maintaining competition within the local dairy industry.Would it be better to welcome Canada's Saputo as another player, or create a bigger Australian company, with Murray Goulburn or Bega, to increase competitiveness overseas?

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is pushing for a mandatory code of conduct for dairy processors after a year - long investigation into an industry crisis sparked by Murray Goulburn and Fonterra Australia retrospectively slashing prices paid to farmers.

The capital raising, as foreshadowed in the Australian Financial Review last week and co-ordinated by Lazard, «is expected to offer investors tradeable units in a «shareholder fund» that is floated on the Australian stock exchange, while continuing to allow only dairy farmers who supply milk to remain full shareholders in the unlisted Murray Goulburn co-operative,» the Australian reported on its web site.

The dairy farmer co-operative said it is confident it will obtain merger authorisation from the Australian Competition Tribunal as it scrambles to derail the pace of shareholder acceptances for Saputo's unconditional offer.