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Karl Dean: Federated Farmers Dairy Chair on Dairy delivering a record year · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Dairy and zed State of the Dairy Nation Report twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to twenty five season. They have produced the most
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  Speaker 1: milk ever twenty one billion liters, export earnings highest ever
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven billion. Karl Dene fed Farmer's dairy chair with
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  Speaker 1: us this morning, Morning, Carl Morning, Ryan Worth celebrating.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely worth celebrating. So that performance on dairy farms is
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  Speaker 2: continuing to increase, and by the looks of the report,
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  Speaker 2: also profitability which flows through to what this government needs,
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  Speaker 2: which is tax revenue.
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  Speaker 1: The increase the production per cow is interesting. Can you
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  Speaker 1: explain how we're getting more out of them?
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  Speaker 2: So every year we get slightly better production per cow
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  Speaker 2: just through due to genetics and due to the fact
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  Speaker 2: that farmers are constantly refining their practices and getting the
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  Speaker 2: most that they can efficiency wise out of animals and
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  Speaker 2: out of the well, making sure they're not using any
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  Speaker 2: more input inputs.
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  Speaker 1: So the herd testing, how important is that to making
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  Speaker 1: sure that you know if you're testing the herd and
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  Speaker 1: then you're mating with the right size.
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  Speaker 2: So it's very important that farmers have the most data
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  Speaker 2: possible to make those decisions. So the idea herd testing
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  Speaker 2: is knowing exactly what the production of h cow is
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  Speaker 2: and therefore being able to make that cow to the
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  Speaker 2: best sire to make sure that you get the best offs.
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  Speaker 1: One makes sense. So this is genetics, this is data.
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  Speaker 1: How does our efficiency how does your output per cow
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  Speaker 1: compare to the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 2: So our output per cow doesn't look great compared to
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the world because we are one of
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  Speaker 2: the only countries in the world that are on a
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  Speaker 2: pasture based system and our only carve once a year.
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  Speaker 2: So for that sort of system, were doing very well.
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  Speaker 2: But there's only about three countries in the world that
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  Speaker 2: really do that well, and New Songs the leader of those.
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  Speaker 1: That's also why I milk so good though, right it is.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed why a milk is some of the best in
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  Speaker 2: the world.
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  Speaker 1: Car appreciate your time and congratulations. This morning Caldene fed
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