Dairy farm profitability takes drastic nose dive

摘要

Our model farm, Friesian Farm, produces 1.125 million litres from 150 cows and their replacements. It operates a year-round calving system and crucially it is on a liquid contract, but not a dedicated supermarket aligned contact. Therefore it is one of those farms which has been hit hard by the latest wave of price cuts. The holding runs to 100ha (of which 40ha are rented on an FBT) and the proprietor provides labour along with one full-time worker (plus casual/relief).