{"id":562,"date":"2010-03-15T01:07:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T01:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2010\/03\/15\/dairy-industry-outlook-positive\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T01:07:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T01:07:11","slug":"dairy-industry-outlook-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/dairy-industry-outlook-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"DAIRY INDUSTRY OUTLOOK POSITIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>March 15, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gippsland dairy farmers have cause for optimism with the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) forecasting world dairy product prices to remain relatively firm in 2010-11 after rebounding from the low prices experienced during 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast made at the ABARE annual conference coincided with a visit by The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester and Member for Gippsland South Peter Ryan to Murray Goulburn\u2019s operations in Maffra.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said he was pleased local dairy farmers are recovering after a 30-40 per cent cut in export prices and ongoing dry seasons left many contemplating their long-term viability last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year I spoke with many local dairy farmers who told me that the industry was at a crisis point. They were concerned for their future viability due to the ongoing dry seasonal conditions and the extremely low opening milk price that was a result of a slump in the global demand,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully we have started to see a positive turnaround in not only milk prices but also increased rainfall and both have given Gippsland\u2019s world-class dairy industry a boost and a good reason to be optimistic about the year ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester and Mr Ryan were given a briefing on the outlook for the industry and a comprehensive tour of the milk processing facility by Site Manager Brad Stokell.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ryan said Murray Goulburn is an outstanding company to have in the Gippsland region to help drive the future of the local dairy industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving companies such as Murray Goulburn operating locally is essential to our region,\u201d Mr Ryan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 200 people are employed at the Maffra facility \u2013 with a similar number of workers at a factory at Leongatha \u2013 and with the capacity to cater to 600 milk producers and process four million litres of milk per day it plays a significant role in the Gippsland dairy industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe region is much the better thanks to this impressive facility and so it\u2019s important that we continue to support businesses that employ local people and develop local industries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>March 15, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gippsland dairy farmers have cause for optimism with the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) forecasting world dairy product prices to remain relatively firm in 2010-11 after rebounding from the low prices experienced during 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast made at the ABARE annual conference coincided with a visit by The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester and Member for Gippsland South Peter Ryan to Murray Goulburn\u2019s operations in Maffra.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said he was pleased local dairy farmers are recovering after a 30-40 per cent cut in export prices and ongoing dry seasons left many contemplating their long-term viability last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}