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More Than Milk

More than Milk shares the incredible stories of the farmers and industry professionals from the dairy industry. Showcasing the diversity, the challenges, the successes and the passion for all things dairy.

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Episode 48. PART 1 - Will Ryan

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2024/02/12

Will currently sharefarms alongside partner Kate in Lardner… but the path to get there certainly hasn’t been straight forward. And as you will notice this is only part 1 of this incredible chat, because it’s a big one - so after finishing school, unsure of what he wanted to do, Will returned home to his parent’s dairy farm who had ridden on the coattails of capital gains. But just as he was about to finish his university degree, his world went into a spin with a cancer diagnosis for his father,

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Episode 47. Alanah Moore

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2024/02/06

Alanah Moore is an energetic 21 year old who has fallen head over heels for dairy. Working part time on 2 farms in West Gippsland, she is excited by what dairy can bring her into the future. In this chat we cover, how and why she came into dairy, what the day to day looks like working on 2 seperate farms, her desire to continue to learn and be ready for future steps within the industry… and I also try to have her settle the debate which is the best cow, jersey or friesian - who wins??? You'll just

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Episode 46. Sophie Healey

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2024/01/30

Sophie Healy is balancing relief milking, aged care and a family run beef herd, but simply just loves milking cows. Throughout this chat we discuss all things relief milking, including how you find a good boss, what her day to day role looks like and why she has chosen dairy. She also openly shares her struggles with depression and anxiety, so just a heads up, we do discuss suicide but how it was milking that has really helped her. And as a reminder if you are in need of some support for your mental

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Episode 45. Gerry & Sarah Kelly

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2024/01/22

Gerry & Sarah Kelly are the father and daughter duo are living farm life in the city, or is it city life on the farm… either way they are possibly the closest dairy farm to Metro Melbourne. Milking 250 cows they aim to keep things simple. Sarah & Gerry have both returned home to the family farm, albeit at very different stages, Gerry returned quite a few years ago now, around the time their 200 Gallon milk contract was ending, making changes like increasing the cow numbers and grazing management

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Episode 44. Tania Luckin

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2024/01/14

Tania Luckin and husband Stephen moved from New Zealand to Australia 26 years ago, and whilst Stephen was from a farming background, Tania had NO dairy experience. But as you will hear, she has thoroughly enjoyed learning and working alongside Stephen and certainly has had a wonderful career in dairy. In today’s chat she shares the experience of moving to Australia and learning a whole new industry, how they have managed their staff with an emphasis on getting the 3R’s right, her involvement within

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Episode 43. Klaudia Douglas

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2023/12/21

Klaudia Douglas fell into a career in dairy, with an opportunity from Kevin & Brodie Game that was simply to good to refuse after finishing school & losing her licence. She began feeding calves and helping with the occasional milking, but has since started to take on more roles and responsibilities. You can certainly hear the excitement Klaudia now has for dairy, finding a passion for her cows and calves and the potential for her future. If you haven’t listened to Brodie’s episode, Listen here it

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Episode 42. Brodie Game

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2023/12/18

Brodie Game believes hard work will beat talent every single time, but I think she has plenty of both. As first generation farmers, she and husband Kevin were determined to fight for their dream of being dairy farmers and they certainly have had a number of setbacks along the way. With limited financial options, dry seasonal conditions, a fire wiping out a large portion of their land and some very HIGH stress situations, it’s no surprise they both considered giving it all up. But its

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01:15:35

Episode 41. Natasha Yarrington

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2023/12/11

Natasha Yarrington farms on the mid north coast of NSW and has a real passion for cows, but the transition onto her husband’s family farm hasn’t been all smooth sailing. In this episode of the podcast Tash shares her experience with farm succession, questioning when did she become a farmer, or did she ever stop? The gradual process of upgrading the business to be more efficient and streamlined including becoming a brown swiss stud, how she balances her time between the farm and homeschooling her 4

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Episode 40. Ross Anderson

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2023/12/04

Ross Anderson farms in Heyfield, in the MID of Gippsland, where he milks 500 crossbred cows which he likes to think of as really efficient factories, making the best use of their water allocation and keeping them fully fed and healthy to provide for the multiple families that they support. Just a heads up this chat was recorded a little while ago, and since then the farm has certainly been wet, but Ross would much prefer it wet than being too dry. It really is a great chat, so let's get into it. In

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01:17:53

Episode 39. Gemma & Tom Otton

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2023/11/27

Gemma & Tom Otton, farm in the Bega Valley at Candelo. Although they are both first generation dairy farmers, agriculture has always been in Tom’s blood. But entering into dairy isn’t always an easy process. How do you get a loan for cows and pay it back, manage cash flow, what do you include in a share farming agreement, how do you juggle farming and raising kids, and prepare yourself for fires, droughts? They are all things Gemma and Tom have worked their way through, starting out on a lease farm,

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01:06:56

Episode 38. Sallie Jones

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2023/11/20

Sallie Jones is the co-creator of Gippsland Jersey, who alongside farmer Steve Reynolds started the milk brand in 2016, shortly after the milk price crash and the death of her father to suicide. Growing up, Sallie’s father was an early adopter of value adding to his farming business, producing ice cream and selling it in a store in Lakes Entrance, and building a processing factory on his farm right next to the dairy, and it’s his legacy that Sallie continues today. Knowing he would be incredibly

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01:07:52

Episode 37. René Dedoncker

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2023/11/13

René Dedoncker joined Fonterra 18 years ago, beginning in food service and bringing skills in international trade to lead a team, growing and connecting chef’s from across the world to innovate products, solve problems and better utilize dairy in their restaurants. But in 2016 he moved into the Managing Director role for the Australian business, just after the decision was made to step down the milk price, with complexities and consequences he didn’t fully grasp at the time. Since then he has been

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01:18:10

Episode 36. Renae Connell

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2023/11/06

Renae Connell and husband Scott both came from dairy farming families and were very young when they decided to go into partnership with her in-laws, purchasing the farm, in Dorrigo NSW, via vendor finance with Scott’s parents still owning the machinery and the cows. Initially to complete the succession plan Renae & Scott would buy the calves and machinery after 5 years to transition the business completely, but that's not quite how the plan worked. After the 9th year without any further

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Episode 35. Michael Armstrong

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2023/10/30

Michael Armstrong farms in Korumburra, where he has been share farming for the last 18 years and is currently milking 900 cows on a 50/50 share. Although it hasn’t been easy, the asset growth they’ve seen has certainly allowed them to build their dairy farming business. They have recently purchased their own farm, and built a new herringbone dairy where they milk another 400 cows, but has the capacity to double that. Throughout this chat he gives great insight into how they’ve set their share

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01:18:51

Episode 34. Glenys Zucco

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2023/10/23

Glenys Zucco is the Head of Marketing at Dairy Australia, a job for her that is more than just a job, it's part of her identity. She grow up on a dairy farm and studied nutrition dietetics and health promotion at uni, loving the role food plays in sports performance and overall health. In the early days at DA she was helping to rebut incorrect claims and promote the nutritional benefits of dairy products, but her role has since evolved into marketing and leading a team around her to not only promote

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Episode 33. June Tarlinton

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2023/10/16

June Tarlinton spent her childhood as a timber cutter, living in the bush from the age of 9 traveling down the NSW coast clearing trees as they went before ending up at Wandella, when she was 16. It was there she met Richard, her now husband, who was a local dairy farmer. And it’s Cobargo that she’s called home for the last 40 years. The original farm milked 80-100 cows with a mixed herd and a low flow creek running through it, so after they were married June wasn’t needed physically to work on the

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Episode 32. Joe Meggetto

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2023/10/09

Joe Meggetto farms in Warragul, where he purchased his farm in 1991, before combining with his father, down the road in 1994. And for the last 26 years worked alongside his father Mario until his sudden death last year. Throughout those years he has taken every opportunity as it presented to purchase land and expand the business, working with the very simple farming philosophy, to make milk as cheaply as possible concentrating on animal welfare, soil health and the environment and waiting to upgrade

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Episode 31. Rob Howell

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2023/10/02

Rob Howell is the director of Supply Chain and Operations for Fonterra Australia, starting out as a Chemical Engineer he never imagined he would be in charge of 8 sites across Victoria and Tasmania. In this chat he gives a great insight into the various processing and manufacturing sites and how they all work together to ensure a diverse and profitable product mix making the most of each litre of milk. He shares some of the processes that have changed and others that haven’t when it comes to

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01:18:52

Episode 30. Chris Petzel

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2023/09/26

Chris is a Senior lecturer at Charles Sturt University based in Wagga Wagga, teaching in the veterinary science degree as well as animal production subjects. But before becoming an academic, he first became a vet, hoping it would help him ultimately become a sheep farmer. His first job was in Corowa, in mixed practice which was his first exposure to the dairy industry and it wasn’t until he was overseas working in the UK and eventually Ireland that he became a dairy vet. When he eventually returned

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Episode 29. Simone Jolliffe

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2023/09/18

Simone farms in Wagga Wagga, where she is one of only a handful of dairy farms left. She and husband Neil purchased the farm, through succession from Neil's family after starting out as sharefarmers. In those early days, they increased cow numbers and even went to 3 milkings per day, wanting to increase production and ultimately cash flow to help with debt load. But it was around 2010, 2011 the idea came to put the cows into a housed system, as pasture management has always been a limiter and to

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