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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

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Were too busy to be burnt out yet

I FEEL as though I’ve spent the past month putting out fires – literally and figuratively. Shout out and thanks to all the volunteer firefighters who came to our farm a week ago, it’s pretty incredible how fast they came and how well organised...

22 Feb 2025
Dairy

Proudly a 1973 more-on model

I WAS at a dairy farm discussion group in Cohuna a few weeks ago evaluating the merits of different feeding systems and facilities when I had an epiphany. The facilitator was describing two different farm development models. And...

21 Jan 2025
Dairy

Life is, or might be, coming up chocolates or tea towels

HOW is the new Coles supermarket deal going? It’s too early to tell, but what I do know is we probably, in fact definitely, were not ready to mix it with the big boys. So we will fake it ’til we make it (but please just keep that under your hat...

21 Dec 2024
Dairy

Proudly sponsored story about our bottled passion

Typically, I use this platform to write gentle self-deprecating humour, and I try to be reasonably honest with our joys and challenges. Today I am going for shameless self-promotion. Sorry, but we are on a journey to build a legacy business of which...

18 Nov 2024
North West Farmer

It’s always the front yard which is a mess

THERE is a saying that the difference between a good farmer and a bad farmer is about one week. I cannot be in the good farmer category as, very embarrassingly, we still have a couple of paddocks to sow – ouch. In my defence, I am somewhat new to...

17 Aug 2024
Dairy

A legend in my own lunch box

EVERY winter when it gets cold, wet and miserable I think “Why am I doing this?” and I consider my options for a career change. How do you think I would go as a movie star? We went to Melbourne for an overnighter for school holidays and everyone went...

20 Jul 2024
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Always embrace the art of learning

I often shock people when they hear me talking and singing to myself. But hey, I’m like “of course I talk to myself, where else can I get such expert advice for free?”I also had another birthday a few weeks ago, and obviously I’m fitter...

24 Jun 2024
Opinion

Processing sector feels the squeeze

I have been quietly waiting for about two years for something to go pop in the Australian dairy industry. Milk prices have been high – above market prices due to processors fighting for milk supply among a steadily reducing number of farmers. My...

17 May 2024
Dairy

Milking all we can from holiday

EVERY time I go to France I am shocked they don’t really do fresh milk – this is why they are so quirky. They do dairy, lots of dairy, having a wonderful obsession with cheese and yoghurt. But they hardly drink milk, and on...

20 Feb 2024
Dairy

Friends in the right places

MY better half Sally, the half who is supposed to love and cherish, says to me my “lack of adaptation to technology is hurting our business”.Ouch!It’s like a dagger through my hard-working Luddite heart. But the truth is...

15 Dec 2023
Opinion

Milk making sit down, belt up and hang on

DAIRY with PAUL BETHUNETHIS milk production business is an emotional rollercoaster. One week you win an award, the next week you have to recall off milk. One week you’re dancing a jig because you get a trial in Coles supermarkets, but then...

24 Nov 2023
Dairy

Back on track after milk woes

The best present I got for my 50th birthday came from a friend who bought me two really large bags of Minties. The reason this was so appropriate is for as long as I can remember, I have had a penchant for betting Minties, and the truth is in 6028...

25 Jul 2023
Dairy

Milk solids offer rises

OPENING milk prices are within 10 cents of the $10 mark after Bulla upped the supply ante a further 10 cents to $9.70. Taking into account the processor’s new peak-to-trough (PT) calculation, an additional $0.20 per kg of milk solids...

30 Jun 2023
North West Farmer

A choc milk toast to 50

There appears to be some weird, even universal, calculation error hovering above me. All because, Sally assures me – and anyone else she can get to listen – it is my 50th birthday in two weeks. In the unlikely event she’s right, that likely...

20 May 2023
Dairy

Mass domination such a sweet dream

Dairy columnIN my early 20s I put myself through a chocolatier’s course. Not just because I loved the stuff. No, I had a plan. A master plan. A master plan of world domination – from Lake Boga. Where my primary weapon of mass marketing would be my...

26 Apr 2023
Dairy

Dairy producers hope for milk price dividend

JOHN Keely, like dairy farmers across northern Victoria, is sweating on milk prices due in May. Because, like every other dairy farmer across northern Victoria, there is little he can do to offset soaring electricity and fuel costs –...

31 Mar 2023
Dairy

Milk price must match power cost rises, say dairy farmers

A DAIRY industry facing soaring electricity and fuel costs needs new-season milk prices to offset production costs. The Australian Energy Regulator has revealed draft electricity price increases of between 20 and 22 per cent over the...

24 Mar 2023