Field Services – Supporting dairy farmers

The Field Services Group is made up of approximately 30 staff based at the 6 regional sites and a small team in the Melbourne head office to manage the share register and the supplier payment and loans department.

Field officers have a varied job role, but provide balanced and impartial views on a range of technical or industry issues, together with the traditional field services role of ensuring regular contact with suppliers to help with milk quality, production and finance issues, or simply offering a friendly face for a chat.

Suppliers wishing to examine their farms financial performance or prospective suppliers who are considering purchasing farms, are offered a range of budgetary and analysis tools that can be used privately, or forwarded as supportive evidence to banks or solicitors.

Budgetary and analysis tools include:

  • Income estimations for current or next season.
  • Income/Expense budgets for an actual year or “Year-in-Year-Out” basis.
  • “What if” modelling for farms considering changes of production system or farms planning growth.
  • Assistance with feed and production planning.

Murray Goulburn Field Services contacts:

Cobram 03 5871 0222
Kiewa 02 6027 9200
Koroit 03 5561 9700
Leongatha 03 5662 9666
Maffra 03 5147 0777
Rochester 03 5484 0222

MG F@rm

MGF@rm is an internet-based program that is available to all suppliers and provides a wide range of farm and industry information. The service is continually improving and provides suppliers with their farm information, both production and financial, and company and industry information.

MG FarmC@re

MG FarmC@re program is MG’s on farm whole farm risk management program that consists of both voluntary and compulsory compliance reporting systems for Food Safety, Environment, Livestock & People Management.

Each component offers the latest information on regulatory requirements, best practice management and assists suppliers to grow their awareness of the issues being addressed.

It has been purposely housed and linked to the MGF@rm system and includes automated filing and reporting systems,the ability to import and export data and facilitates the easy reporting by supplier/shareholders to regulatory authorities.

MG MilkCare

Murray Goulburn has a reputation for quality and food safety which makes it a preferred supplier of dairy products on a global scale.

Murray Goulburn was the first Australian dairy company to initiate a fully audited Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system at farm level. In 1999 we launched our dedicated on-farm quality improvement program under the banner of MG MilkCare.

Murray Goulburn continues to strive to achieve excellence in quality and food safety and regularly updates MilkCare to reflect evolving customer needs.