A discussion between Campbell Parker of DairyNZ and Jamie Mackay on the challenges and opportunities facing dairy farmers, including rising production costs, input volatility, and new initiatives like dairy beef and responsible dairy practices.
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Yeah, there certainly are Jamie. And uh if you look at the break-even milk price, it went from uh $8.36 up to $8.79. Um, but the main one is there's quite a bit of volatility, and you saw that with Fonterra's opening milk price as well, around midpoint of 975, it sounds great, uh, but a range of eight to eleven dollars. So that's really highlighting the volatility and the price pressure is real uh, you know, when that's coming through. And we talk about the 5F, so fertilizer, freight, feed uh and fuel, obviously. Uh but the other one is finance. So as inflation starts to kick, finance will be a challenge as well.
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rising fuel and input costs threaten margins
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