Dairy Cow diet crunch-time THE next fortnight is crucial to Victoria's dairy farmers for feed, pasture management and planning summer crops as they try to maintain production. Vote on dairy co-op future THE fate of National Foods' takeover of Dairy Farmers has now been put in the hands of the NSW-based co-operative's suppliers. Prices hold as cattle sell-off begins B-DOUBLES lining up outside the Ballarat saleyards early last Friday morning took agents and vendors by surprise. It's official: AI lifts profits VICTORIAN research shows that artificially inseminated-bred cows are an average $53 a year more profitable than their naturally bred counterparts. Fonterra denies San Lu sale Gippsland to soak up suburban sprawl Funds must focus on the future Dairy award a chance to learn Chinese milk contamination spreads

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