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Riding out milk price volatility

Understanding the breakeven milk price required for an individual dairy farm business is an essential stage in developing plans to manage the impact of price volatility

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Riding out milk price volatility

Andrew Suddes, head of farm consultancy at Promar, says profitability cycles are now the norm in dairy farming, with typically one good year, one bad year and three moderate years every five years, making...

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