7+ hour, 55+ min ago  (307+ words) Frestine Milk has again failed to pay March payments on time to suppliers. Cloverleaf dairy farmer Trent Webb said he had not yet received payment for the milk he supplied in March. Payments to suppliers are due to the 15th of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (521+ words) Suppliers of troubled dairy processor Frestine face a nervous wait after the company said it would pay its suppliers their February milk cheque by the end of the week. In a letter to the company's 100 suppliers, Frestine chief executive Arief…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (407+ words) Frestine Milk has failed to provide information about unpaid February milk payments to some suppliers to United Dairyfarmers of Victoria. UDV president Bernie Free visited the company's Melbourne office seeking answers on Monday, March 30. "We knocked on the door and…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago  (489+ words) A Murray River operation is hoping for a significant gain in pasture productivity as it becomes one of the first beef producers to adopt Halter technology in Victoria. The Victorian government gave the green light to Halter in late February…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (1010+ words) At least one Victorian farmer has vowed to ditch an Indonesian-owned dairy company over a delay in payment for February milk cheques. Stock & Land understands up to 100 farmers who supply to Frestine Dairy Australia might have experienced a delay in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (504+ words) Winslow dairy farmer Bernie Free is back home after he and his wife Sandra were involved in a horror crash in December. Mr Free was finally released from the Epworth rehabilitation hospital in Hawthorn and allowed to return home two…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (803+ words) A Victorian dairy farmer says he was given "no notice" before a fleet of B-double trucks and police vehicles descended on his property to seize a milking herd at the centre of a high-stakes dispute with a specialist livestock lender....

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (529+ words) A prominent high country grazing family who usually sells their draft of Herefords at the iconic Mountain Calf Sales each March have made the "tough" decision to sell their cattle six weeks earlier than usual. The decision by Peter and…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (631+ words) Three leading southern dairy farmers have revealed the gritty reality of adopting new technology, moving beyond the "sales rep hype" to prove how feedlot integration, virtual fencing and even simple solar-powered gates are solving the industry's most systemic challenges. Speaking…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (339+ words) The retirement plans of a dairy farmer in south-west Victoria provide an opportunity for buyers to capitalise on their super modern milking operation. On the market for $4. 5 million, the little irrigation farm punches well above its weight with a recently…...