Posted by down under farmer on March 16, 2019 at 21:53:21 from (1.132.104.235):
As centash has shown one of our major supermarket has added 10 cents a liter to it milk. Yay clap hands for them. Dont say anything about 11 years ago when they decided to cut the price to $1 for consumers and guess who took the knife over that. Us the farmers. In Queensland where we farm we get avg 56 cents a liter for our milk. The supermarkets extra 10cents is for the drought. We have a winter and summer growing season so we farm year round not like yous in a mad 6/8 month rush befor the snow turns up. 2018/19 summer crop was a fail. Winter 2018 we never even planted. 17/18 summer was below average and 17 winter was a fail to but we planted 2 months early on cyclone rain and caught a break to get us in front with feed or we would be done milking by now to. In 2018 we got 12 inchs of rain. 2017 was more but fell in big falls outside our planting windows. Our average rain fall is 26 inchs for our area. Every ag industry is hurting now. Feed costs through roof jard time sourceing them. There is talk of barley being imported from canada to fill the hole. We manged to buy some failed summer crops for silage to keep us going for a bit longer. Cost us $20 000 just for seed and chemical to plsnt and none of it got ovrr 2ft high. Only grazed dry cows and young stock on it not worth hay or silage. Add $60 000 for silage brought in on top and no sign of this drought breaking any time soon most dairys been buying feed for 3 out of last 5 yrs. In last 10 yrs queensland has gone from 700 dairy farms to maybe 350 and dropping fast. An extra 10 cents on top of our 56c/L we het payed will not stop the decline its to little to late. No money for genetics only thing a dairy cow is worth now is what an abattors while pay for them hanging on a hook. So eat up at McDonald's and help ya fellow dairy farmer out lol. Everyone is ready to pull the pin and the longrr this dtought goes and more feed costs go up and get harder to surce the more the drop out. Just like in the states lots of rmpty dairys around here in the last 10 yrs and fast becomeing more
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