Murray Dairy is heading up the C4Milk project, which is a 3-year partnership between Murray Dairy, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QDAF) dairy group, Dairy Australia and the Gardiner Foundation.
It was developed out of the outcomes of previous Murray Dairy projects that have tracked changes to inland dairy farm systems and the increased utilisation of grain crops for fodder.
Experiments are being carried out by two field research organisations at two locations in northern Victoria – a dryland site near Mitiamo (Birchip Cropping Group; BCG) and an irrigated site near Kerang (Irrigation Farmers Network; IFN) – and are testing the impacts of break crop strategies (eg single or double) and crop type.
To learn more about the project read Project yields varied results (Dairy News Australia, 2024).