26/03/2012QDO congratulates LNP on stunning election win
THE Queensland Dairyfarmers’ Organisation congratulated the Liberal-National Party (LNP) on its sweeping election victory at the weekend, and said that it looked forward to working with the new government to achieve positive outcomes for the State’s dairy industry.
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25/01/2012MILK WARS: COUNTING THE COST ONE YEAR ON
WHILE the nation lights its barbeques and toasts Australia Day this week, dairy farmers will be noting the one-year anniversary of the brutal retail milk price war, and its disastrous impacts over the last 12 months, on top of the severe impacts from natural disasters which savaged all Queensland dairying regions last year.
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03/11/2011MILK WARS: SENATE REPORT LEAVES FARMERS EXPOSED
THE Queensland Dairyfarmers’ Organisation (QDO) said the final report from the Senate Economics committee into the impact of supermarket pricing decisions on the dairy industry was a let-down for farmers, and sent mixed messages about the urgent need for action on the retail milk war.
Released today, parts of the Senate Report and some committee members delivered scathing attacks on the major supermarkets and the impact that the price war would have and is having on farmers. However there is a split in the Senate Committee and some Senators have made their own recommendations, which QDO supports.
But the main recommendations of the Report and Government Senators failed to make any notable recommendations that would alleviate the disastrous impacts of the retail milk price war of $1/litre and its impact on the value chain and farming families.
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06/09/2011Dairy farmers detail the milk war, blow by blow
QUEENSLAND dairy farmers have lodged detailed information to the current Senate Inquiry into milk prices, providing evidence that the national retail milk value chain has been devalued by $77 million in 2010/2011 compared to the previous year and that dairy farmers are being directly impacted, as a result of the Coles-led $1/litre milk discounting.
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25/07/2011ACCC OKs THE DEATH OF MILK BRANDS & CONSUMER CHOICE
THE Queensland Dairyfarmers’ Organisation (QDO) believes that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has made a premature conclusion that Coles has not breached the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 in regard to its $1/litre milk discounting and triggering the current retail milk war.
“We’re extremely disappointed by this decision from the ACCC, announced in a Friday afternoon press release four days before the sixth month anniversary of the discount war started by Coles,” QDO President Brian Tessmann said.
“We’re also equally disappointed that the ACCC has not backed it up with substantiated evidence. The conclusion is premature because a lot more of the impact from this cutthroat discounting is still to come. The major impacts on farmers will hit home in the coming months, as farmers seek to renegotiate new contracts for the coming year.
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31/05/2011MILK WARS: DAIRY FARMER PRESENTS THE TRUE IMPACTS
QUEENSLAND dairy farmers are expected to fall short of producing enough milk to meet the State’s drinking milk demand this year, and the Queensland Dairyfarmers’ Organisation has warned that this trend would worsen in the future if a solution is not found with the current retail milk war.
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16/05/2011OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS THE REAL COST OF SUPERMAKRET TACTICS & THE CURRENT MILK PRICE WAR
THE head of the UK’s largest dairy representative group, Dairy UK, is visiting Queensland farms today to explain first-hand the impact of supermarket pricing strategies on dairy farm bottom lines.
Director-General of Dairy UK, Jim Begg, is visiting dairy farms near Beaudesert today (Monday, May 16).
Queensland Dairyfarmers’ Organisation president, Brian Tessmann, said European and United Kingdom dairy farmers were facing an unsustainable cost squeeze from major supermarkets, just as is currently happening in Australia with the Coles-led $1/litre milk discounting.
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10/05/2011MILK WARS: URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO SHIELD DAIRY FARMERS
ONGOING delays to striking a sustainable solution to the retail supermarket milk price wars will continue to see damage being incurred by the Queensland dairy industry, the Queensland Dairyfarmers’ Organisation said today.
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27/04/2011YOUNG DAIRY NETWORKS AWARDED FEDERAL FUNDING
COMMUNITY capacity in the Queensland dairy industry will receive a boost thanks to Federal Government funding just announced under the Community Investment Program.
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20/04/2011QUEENSLAND DAIRY FARMERS RESPONSE TO SENATE INTERIM REPORT
THE Queensland Dairyfarmers’ Organisation said today that the industry was extremely frustrated with further delays to the reporting process from the current Senate Inquiry into milk prices and that the result would be further pressure at the farm-gate as a result of the ongoing supermarket milk price war.
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