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Macalister Demonstration Farm

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MDF Fortnightly Update 495

July 1, 2019 by MDF

The important physical targets that drive the feed margin (milk per cow and grass per hectare) are both meeting, or exceeding, the targets we set 12 months ago.  But the financial target (feed margin, $1,636) is not being achieved because we thought that we would be feeding our own (cheaper) conserved silage and not the higher priced silage we’ve had to buy. MDF Fortnightly Update 495 2019-05-24

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Macalister Demonstration Farm

285 Boggy Creek Road
Riverslea, Victoria
Postal Address:
PO Box 87
Maffra VIC 3860

Phone: 0488 175 366

MDF Fortnightly Update 508

December 9, 2019 By MDF

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December 9, 2019 By MDF

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November 12, 2019 By MDF

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September 30, 2019 By MDF

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The Macalister Research Farm, known as the Macalister Demonstration Farm since 2008, is a farmer-owned co-operative that was established on April 13th 1960. The brief was to acquire a commercial dairy farm on which systems of farming that had the … Read More

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