Chinese company DFP Australia buys two Gippsland dairy farms
CHINESE-listed company DFP Australia has bought two Gippsland dairy properties.
CHINESE-listed company DFP Australia has bought two Gippsland dairy properties.
General manager Roy Wang said a property at Poowong would milk 500 cows and another at nearby Athlone 450.
The Poowong property supplied Murray Goulburn and the Athlone farm Burra Foods.
Mr Wang, who is based in Sydney, said these supply arrangements would not change.
The 310ha Poowong property, sold to DFP by Peter and Elaine Notman for $22,239/ha, includes a 40-stand rotary dairy and two brick-veneer homes. It was site of the Notman Pasture Seeds field days, which have attracted about 450 people to each of 13 events over the past 27 years.
The Notmans will continue to run their dairy farm in NSW as well as the seed business.
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