Retreat Creek
John and Clare Cotton, owners of Retreat Creek, Victoria have decided to retire from dairy farming and are preparing for the sale or lease of their farm and herd. In the meantime they will revert to a traditional grazing/feeding farm system and batch milk their cows in their existing rotary.

Even basic data offers a boost
Better use can be made of basic data already being collected on-farm, according to a veterinary researcher. Cameron Clark, of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney, says as the average herd size has increased, the cost of data collection has fallen meaning there is more information available.