Dairy Australia says about 20 per cent of the milk produced in Australia now comes from intensive or housed systems and expects it could reach 40 per cent within the next 20 years.
Cows at the Jolliffe dairy farm are housed in a large milking shed.Roughly 20 per cent of Australia's cow's milk comes from intensive or housed production systems .
Instead of grazing paddocks, the cows stay in large sheds or feed pads and are fed a high-nutrition ration of grain and hay.Supplied: Central Steel BuildDairy farmer Neil Jolliffe has invested $2.7 million in a large open shed to house his 300 milking cows at Euberta near Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales."With this shed, we designed it for 400 cows, I've got a 16,000-litre vat and basically my plan is to go as close to filling that as possible every day in the future.
"The biggest issue when we were grazing is you'd have a great feed that's absolutely perfect for the cows and then the season would turn or get hot, cold, or muddy," he said. Jamie Forster has received excellent farm gate prices for milk in recent years, but he is still giving up dairy farming — and he's not alone.
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