Business management key to profitability

Dairy farmers are producing in a new era of higher costs, more price volatility and a smaller safety net, but there are still plenty of opportunities

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Business management key to profitability

After the previous year of high milk prices, producers struggled to make money in the 2023/24 milk year, but the outlook is a little brighter for 2024/25, according to business consultants Andersons...

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