Milk price rise needed to beat drought costs

Andrew Marshall
Updated September 12 2018 - 1:51pm, first published 12:00am
Can 10c/litre more save drought-ravaged dairy farms?
Can 10c/litre more save drought-ravaged dairy farms?

Soaring feed costs will force up to a third of NSW and Queensland dairy farmers to quit the industry if significant rain does not arrive to ease eastern Australia’s drought within months, or milk prices don’t rise.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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