Building on New Opportunities

In line with our new collaborative program Dairy UP, this year we focus on Unlocking the Potential of our dairy industry! 

Come along for an amazing program including:

Better milk and dairy beef markets

Dairy and beef farmers are largely price takers. As such, there is little they can do to change that reality. Or is there? A new range of market  options such as future markets and supply-chain agreements, commonly used in other industries, are now becoming available for dairy and beef products. We bring experts to explain what is in it for the Australian dairy farmers.

Managing people and climatic adversity to de-risk dairying

We tackle big risks for the dairy industry: skilled farm labour and climatic adversity; hearing firsthand from the young, skilled people currently  working in the dairy industry; and a renowned consultant and a panel of farmers directly affected by climatic calamities who have come up successfully at the other end. An unmissable session.

Lifting productivity and profitability through farm intensification

This session focusses on Intensification, without doubt one of the hottest topics in the Australian dairy industry today! We bring directly from USA Courtney Hallbach, a top expert in Free-Stall and Compost barn design with cow comfort and farm profitability as key goals. Courtney comes from the University of Wisconsin and will join, in person, Dairy UP researchers and farmers who have taken – or are taking – the path of intensification to understand the real pros and cons, and costs of intensification!