Winners of the first Weekly Times Countdown Downunder Milk Quality Awards have all been published now in the Weekly Times. 

Please click on the links on below to open lists of each region’s winners.

The winners are farms with the lowest 5% of BMCCs across Australia. Each will each receive a diamond-shaped plaque.

To establish the winners, ADHIS averaged BMCCs for each month in 2000 and then ranked for more than 10,000 farms throughout Australia. Farms had to have BMCCs for 9 or more months to be eligible. Some regions scored very well – more than 8% of Tasmanian farmers will receive plaques.

The award was a great collaboration between Countdown and a number of other players in the industry. All of the dairy processing companies contributed data. The Weekly Times provided the sponsorship and have published the winners for each region in a series of feature articles.

Most winners will be receiving their plaques at supplier meetings of their dairy companies. Keep an eye out to congratulate clients with a new plaque on the gate or dairy wall. And the award will continue, so watch out for it again next year.