Farmers | South-west Victorian farmers left in the dark during power outage

A power outage affecting more than 19,000 customers left one south-west Victorian farming family and their cows stranded for about five hours.

Jancourt East, VIc, farmer Case Taylor said last week’s mass power outage affected her and her husband Caleb “in a big way”.

“We were an hour into milking when the power went out therefore 40 cows were stuck on the platform for five hours,” she said.

“When it came back on we got them off, cleaned up a bit, started milking again, got the first lap on and the power went out again.”

Mrs Taylor said the power outage came at a financial loss to the farm.

“When the power goes out we lose milk as the milk in the milk can drains out onto the floor,” she said.

“We have to pay workers to stand there and wait to see if it comes back on. Also that night my husband Caleb and I didn’t finish milking until midnight and Caleb had to go back down at 3.30am and start again.”

Mrs Taylor said the farm was hit by power outages “a bit but not like that”.

Strong winds brought down trees and branches onto powerlines overnight on Thursday.

Look also

a2MC eyes own processing plant, more Chinese labels

The a2 Milk Company (a2MC) says securing more China label registrations and developing its own nutritional manufacturing capability are high on its agenda.

You may be interested in

Calls for dairy industry to stop killing healthy calves for milk production

a2MC eyes own processing plant, more Chinese labels

‘Robust Dairying for Future Challenges’

Topics |
Farmers, Victorian

Legal notice about Intellectual Property in digital contents. All information contained in these pages that is NOT owned by eDairy News and is NOT considered “public domain” by legal regulations, are registered trademarks of their respective owners and recognized by our company as such. The publication on the eDairy News website is made for the purpose of gathering information, respecting the rules contained in the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works; in Law 11.723 and other applicable rules. Any claim arising from the information contained in the eDairy News website shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Ordinary Courts of the First Judicial District of the Province of Córdoba, Argentina, with seat in the City of Córdoba, excluding any other jurisdiction, including the Federal.