milk
Bulla first in with new season’s milk price
Colac’s Bulla Dairy Foods has opened the 2023-24 season with a milk price decrease, after describing the current market as “uncertain”.
World prize for glass bottles
A Timboon dairy farm has won an international award for its dedication to sustainability through glass bottles.
District supplies new milk brand
Western District dairy farmers are the sole suppliers of a new milk brand that has hit supermarket shelves in Geelong and the Surf Coast.
Milk to continue flowing
Deans Marsh farmer and senior dairy industry figure Terry Richardson has assured Colac district dairy farmers that their production line will continue to flow during the coronavirus crisis
Farmers abandon processor
Colac district dairy farmer Glen Armistead has stopped supplying Murray Goulburn after the “poor management” of the co-operative’s mid-season price cut.
More milk price cuts risk farmers’ futures
Colac district farmers have received another blow after milk processors Murray Goulburn and Fonterra announced low opening milk prices for the 2016-17 season.
Singer pens powerful song
A Colac district singer has written a song which fellow farmers have described as a “call to arms”.
CRISIS TALKS: Mayor calls urgent meeting to help dairy sector
COLAC OTWAY Shire’s mayor has called an urgent meeting of councillors today to start planning how a united approach can lessen the impact of the south-west dairy crisis.