David and Jenni Owen
Finley (Riverina), Murray Dairy region
David and Jenni Owen are the Riverina Focus Farmers. They with their daughter Kristeen and her husband Leigh Culton are farming together in Blighty milking up to 700 cows on 480 hectares that includes an 80 hectare outblock. The cows produce around 560 kg milk solids with 2.8 tonnes of concentrate per cow and 5 tonnes of home grown feed per hectare over the whole area. One of the goals is to lift this figure up to 7 tonnes.
When Kristeen and Leigh came home the next door farm was purchased and initially they ran two herds through two dairies. Both herds have been joined together and are all being milked through the newer dairy, but there are plans to build one new dairy, feed pad, feed shed and calf-rearing facilities.