The 2020-21 Dairy Farm Monitor report is now available online. This information provides an important snapshot of how dairy farm businesses have performed over the past financial year and the longer-term. So how did the year stack up for dairy farmers in Victoria? Compared with the previous year, average earnings [...]
The latest Dairy Farm Monitor report shows that the 25 farmers in the Gippsland sample used a range of operational strategies to manage the 2019-20 season. Surveyed farmers made the decision early to plan for the challenging season ahead with contrasting conditions in the sub regions. The seasonal conditions in [...]
One of our surveyed south west Victoria farmers in the Dairy Farm Monitor Project (DFMP) has told us how the improved conditions returned their business back to black in 2019-20. The more consistent rainfall supported higher pasture and conserved fodder yields to increase milk production per cow than the previous [...]
A Victorian Overview The DFMP provides farm level data from 75 farms relating to profit and production in Victoria and was produced for the 13th time this year. The 2018-19 financial year was a challenging period for the Victorian dairy industry. Profit was constrained by below average rainfall and high [...]
Join Agriculture Victoria’s Specialist Farm Business Economist Claire Waterman for a business breakfast, as she presents the findings of the Dairy Farm Monitor results for 2018-19. Register at Dairy Australia Events Page
Join Agriculture Victoria's Farm Business Economist Tristan Wardley for an Industry and Service Providers lunch, as he presents the findings of the Dairy Farm Monitor results for 2018-19, along with a Situations and Outlook and GippsDairy update discussion. Register at GippsDairy Events Page
Join Agriculture Victoria's Farm Business Economist Tristan Wardley for a Service Providers breakfast, as he presents the findings of the Dairy Farm Monitor results for 2018-19. Register at GippsDairy Events Page
Staff from Agriculture Victoria and the private sector are busy surveying 75 participating farms to have the latest Dairy Farm Monitor report released at the end of August. The Dairy Farm Monitor Project has been analysing the economic performance of Victorian dairy farms over the last 11 years. Dairy farms [...]
