The Devondaler – MG’s community newspaper

Couple answer the $1.4m question

Couple answer the $1.4m question

24th April 2012 | By ROBERT WHITE THE very thought of spending $1.4 million on a new dairy would be enough to make any person to have a series of ...

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Ray, Jenny bank on a career in dairying

Ray, Jenny bank on a career in dairying

24th April 2012 | By ROBERT WHITE WHAT’S a former bank manager and his bank-teller wife doing running a 420ha dairy farm? Well, it all goes back to their years as ...

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Mark keen for tradition to continue

Mark keen for tradition to continue

29th March 2012 | By ROBERT WHITE THE Dowling name has been highly re-garded and respected in dairy circles in South Gippsland for a number of generations. And it looks like ...

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Malcolm breaks new ground with horses

Malcolm breaks new ground with horses

23rd March 2012 | By ROBERT WHITE IF they are not careful, Malcolm and Michelle Sharp may soon have more horses than cows on their farm near Simpson, in south ...

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Flood-hit family is now home to stay

Flood-hit family is now home to stay

21st March 2012 | By SOPHIE BRUNS It has been a happy homecoming for the Palmer family. Stuart, Cecelia and their kids Annie, Lucy, Jude and Gus have just returned home ...

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Sibling partnership in dairying role

Sibling partnership in dairying role

15th February 2012 | By ROBERT WHITE WHEN Allison Potter had her baby son, Logan, 13 months ago, she knew that she couldn’t continue her career as a Murray Goulburn ...

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Persistence pays for determined dairy man

Persistence pays for determined dairy man

12th January 2012 | By ROBERT WHITE PERSISTENCE is a key trait for any dairy farmer and Kane Smollenaars has it by the vat full. Consider this. He left school to ...

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Up and Running

Up and Running

8th December 2011 | MG chief outlines big changes MURRAY Goulburn’s newly appointed managing director, Gary Helou, has hit the ground running with promises to take on the co-operative’s cost ...

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Natalie brings wealth of skills to board table

Natalie brings wealth of skills to board table

8th December 2011 | By ROBERT WHITE IT would be easy to tell the story of Natalie Aker’s election to the Murray Goulburn board in terms of the obvious. She ...

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Look … no hands!

Look … no hands!

8th December 2011 | Robots take the hard work out of milking By ROBERT WHITE ROBERT Henningsen has 480 cows on the family farm just north of Mount Gambier. And he ...

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