date:May 10, 2016
A group of Australian dairy farmers are extremely unhappy with the pricing decisions by Murray Goulburn and Fonterra to cut their respective farmgate milk prices.
Fonterra Australia late last week revised its farmgate milk price for the current season from AUD $5.60 per kilogram of milk solids (MS) to AUD $5.00 per kilogram. Fonterras announcement comes after Murray Goulburn, owner of Devondale, lowered its prices a week earlier.
A group called Farmer Power is now lobbying Federal Agriculture