Average Waikato/BOP dairy farmer lost $100,000 last year

The financial stress on dairy farmers is mounting as they head into another year of expected losses, despite continued savage cost cutting. With special feature audio.

Jenny Ruth
Tue, 09 Aug 2016

The average dairy farmer in the Waikato/Bay of Plenty area lost $100,000 in the year just finished and is budgeting to lose more than $32,000 this year.

A survey of farmers in the region by Agfirst found that’s in spite of continued aggressive cutting of costs to below sustainable levels and not

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