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More Than Milk
by Chloe Brown
More than Milk shares the incredible stories of the farmers and industry professionals from the dairy industry. Showcasing the diversity, the challenges, the successes and the passion for all things dairy.
Episodes
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Narelle & Joel Zanker: Part One - South Australia
What happens when a love of dairy farming meets a passion for teaching? For Narelle and Joel, it's Dairy Adventures an agritourism business welcoming visitors onto the family dairy farm in South Australia to learn where their milk comes from. In part one of our conversation, Narelle shares her...
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Danielle Wright: South West Victoria
Danielle Wright farms alongside her husband Tom in Southwest Victoria, but her path into dairy began with a career in graphic design and no agricultural background. Danielle shares how she found her feet in the industry, built confidence through study and established Gully View Dairy, producing...
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Andrew Jeffers: South West Victoria - Water Security
Andrew Jeffers, interim CEO of Food and Fibre Great South Coast, shares his insights on water security challenges facing Southwest Victoria's $4.6 billion agricultural sector. From his unique perspective bridging water management and agriculture, Andrew discusses climate adaptation strategies,...
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Aus Dairy Conference Wrap Up with Ella Credlin
In this episode, recorded at the Australian Dairy Conference, I sit down with 2026 Programming Chair Ella Credlin to talk about what goes into creating a conference for nearly 950 dairy farmers and industry professionals. Ella shares her journey into dairy, stepping into leadership, and why she...
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Episode 90 - Part 2: Gab Toscan & Michael Dennis
In this episode we continue the conversation with Gab Toscan and Michael Dennis from Breakwater Insurance, shifting the focus to the practical realities of insurance inside a dairy business. This part of the chat dives deeper into the insurable risks dairy farmers face day-to-day — including...
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Episode 90. Gab Toscan & Michael Dennis - Part 1
Gab Toscan and Michael Dennis from Breakwater Insurance are working closely with dairy farmers and share what they've learned from supporting businesses through challenging moments — and why dairy insurance isn't always as simple as a set-and-forget farm pack. The conversation introduces Dairy...
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Rachel Nicholson: Mid-North Coast NSW
In this episode of the More than Milk podcast, Chloe sits down with Rachel Nicholson, a dairy farmer based on Jones Island on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Rachel shares her experience of farming on a floodplain, including the impact of major flood events in 2021 and again in 2025, and...
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Episode 88. Joe Jacobs - Gippsland
Joe Jacobs is the Research Director for Animal Production with Agriculture Victoria, based at the Ellinbank Smart Farm. In this chat Joe shares his incredible journey as a scientist, having worked in multiple dairying regions before making the move to Gippsland. He emphasizes the importance of...
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Episode 87. Louise Sundermann - National
Louise Sundermann is the policy lead for animal health and welfare at Dairy Australia. After growing up on a dairy farm in Gippsland, her passion for animals led her to work with Dairy Australia in a number of roles, with her current focus the Calfways Pathway for Dairy Beef in the search for...
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Episode 86. Deanne Kennedy - Gippsland
Deanne Kennedy had a background in finance and local government, before becoming a dairy farmer's wife, but soon found herself putting the bookkeeping and organisational skills to work, managing the office for a farm consultant and milk processor, before founding Jaydee Events With a passion for...
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Episode 85. Troy Rossborough - Northern Victoria
Troy Rossborough grew up in suburban Melbourne before a childhood love of the outdoors led him into agricultural studies and a traineeship in dairy. Over the next 25 years, he worked across Northern Victoria and Gippsland, experiencing everything from small family farms to large-scale operations,...
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Episode 84. Amy Cosby - Gippsland
Amy Cosby, a dairy farmer and agricultural researcher, discussed her journey into dairy farming, her academic career, and her passion for agricultural education. She shares her and her husband's long-term goal of farm ownership, the challenges they faced securing financing, and the eventual...
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Episode 83. Warren Davies - Northern Victoria
Warren Davies is the Unbreakable Farmer, who spends his days now as a mental health advocate and speaker, working across the country with a diverse mix of communities and organsiations, but at his heart, he's still a dairy farmer. In this chat he shares how he purchased his own farm next to his...
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Episode 82. Billy Buckingham - South West Victoria
Billy Buckingham has returned home to his family farm, with a real passion to continue the legacy his grandparents started. In this chat he shares the current challenges of the drought and how he is able to take advantage of the dry season preparations his family invested in years ago. He also...
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Episode 81. Tori Brindle Mansell - South Coast NSW
Tori Brindle Mansell grew up in suburban Sydney, but always had a passion for agriculture, turning a summer placement at Uni into a successful career in dairy. In this chat she shares her love for robotic farming systems, how she started with calf rearing which has since developed into a manager...
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Episode 80. Virginia Mall - Central Coast NSW
Virginia Mall is a self proclaimed dairy tragic, with a lifelong passion for dairy and guernsey cows. Although she was discouraged from pursuing a career in agriculture, she was drawn back in with a real focus on regenerative farming practices. In this chat she shares how she runs a diversified...
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Episode 79. Alysha & Ryan Conlan - South West Victoria
Alysha & Ryan Conlan had multiple businesses and were making every second of the day count before following their dream to transition from construction into dairy farming. In this week's episode they share how 5 calves quickly went to standing room only, how they didn't let the multiple NO's stop...
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Episode 78. Rachael Napier - Southern NSW
Rachael farms in Southern NSW and today shares her incredibly difficult experience following the milk crash and clawback in 2016 and how it drastically changed their farming system. Alongside partner Craig they had to make decisions and make them quick, including downsizing the herd and reducing...
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Episode 77. Monique Bryant - Northern Victoria
Monique Bryant farms alongside husband Mark in Northern Victoria, and although she has spent time off farm in milk supply and in education, her choice has been and still remains to be farming everyday. In this chat she shares how they've worked through succession planning on the family farm, how...
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Episode 76. Sarah Crosthwaite - Northern Victoria
Sarah Crosthwaite farms alongside her husband Stuart, in the North East of Victoria but her real passion is mental health, starting her own counselling business supporting the mental health and wellbeing of farmers, rural families and a variety of agricultural workers across Australia. In this...
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Episode 75. Greg Duncan - Southern NSW
Greg Duncan, is the agribusiness program leader at Dairy Australia. Greg shares his fascinating journey into the dairy industry, starting from his family's sheep and potato farming background in Northern Ireland and England. He discusses his diverse role at Dairy Australia, his early memories of...
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Episode 74. Grant Rogers - Tasmania
Grant Rogers worked as a vet in New Zealand before moving to Tasmania to follow his passion to be a farmer. Whilst he admits it was a very steep learning curve, he spent almost 20 years on farm before knowing the time was right to retire and move back into his veterinary practice. Whilst on farm...
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Episode 73. Paul Roderick - Sub Tropics QLD
Paul Roderick grew up surrounded by dairy and always knew he would return to his family farm which has gone through plenty of changes across the generations. In this week's episode chat he shares about the evolution of the family farm, we chat about grazing grass in the subtropics and the...
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Episode 72. Ancret Shipton - Far South Coast NSW
Ancret Shipton farms in the Bega Valley, not far from where she grew up, but she never envisioned herself as a farmer. That was until she met Michael, who just wanted to be in dairy. Ancret however considered herself the farmers wife; the sounding board, the support and backstop for Michael's...
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Episode 71. Andrea Vallance - South West Victoria
Andrea Vallance started her working career as a woodwork teacher, but quickly moved into farming after marrying Bruce. Although he wasn't in dairy at the time, agriculture was in his blood, so when an opportunity came to lease a farm in Mepunga they jumped at it. They've since built up the...
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Episode 70. Julie Moore
Julie Moore is a self proclaimed dairy tragic, born and bred within dairy, she has enormous passion for cows and has spent her life balancing farming, family and community. And now begins the process of slowing down with retirement in sight. She's spent years donating her time volunteering on a...
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Episode 69. Celina Pellett
Celina Pellett was an outdoor loving thrill seeker, born in New Zealand on a path to have a very physical career until a freak accident completely changed all of her plans, combining that with covid limiting her ability to find work, it was knocking on a farmers door asking for work that has seen...
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Episode 68. Nick Hutchinson
Nick Hutchinson is the General Manager of Fleurieu Milk Company, having been involved with the company for over 12 years ago, the business & Nick have seen incredible growth over that time, with now over 100 people employed and having complete traceability across their raw milk collection, the...
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Episode 67: Daniel Bacon
Brookbora Jersey's has been developing and improving the genetics of the herd for 60 years, with his father and grandfather at the helm, but after the recent death of his dad Robert, it's now Daniel Bacon who is continuing that legacy whilst also forging his own path on the farm. In this chat he...
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Episode 66. Victoria Mulcahy
Victoria Mulchay has always known farming was going to be in her life, but what started as a fill in for the herd manager, at their family corporate business 10 years has into evolved into a separation from the corporate business, construction of 2 compost barns and plans for further expansion…
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Episode 65. Jess Gavenlock
Jess Gavenlock grew up in the United States, in a large family passionate about cows and was heavily involved in the handling and showing of cattle. But it was whilst on exchange that she met her husband Brad and fell not only in love, but found a home in Australia. They now run Cherrylock Cattle...
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Episode 64. Nick Mignanelli
Nick Mignanelli is an energetic young farmer who is focused on doing better every day, whether it's pastures, fencing or breeding, he is making small but impactful changes on farm to get the most out of his patch of dirt in South Australia and has such a great outlook on life and farming. In the...
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Episode 63. Sally Bethune
Sally Bethune is from Lake Boga in Victoria and alongside managing a 1000 cow dairy farm, her and husband Paul have value added to the business in the form of a micro milk processing facility producing milk, yoghurt and Bethune Lane Dairy's star of the show belgian chocolate plus milk. Sally…
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Episode 62. Emma Poole
Emma Poole is a dairy farmer and veterinarian from the Waikato region in New Zealand and joined us at the Cream of the Crop Conference sharing her experience as the first female to win the FMG Young Farmer of the Year in 55 years. In this chat we cover everything from Emma's experience as a vet,...
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Episode 61. Rachael McGrath
Rachael McGrath simply loves Jersey cows, and has a real passion for improving the genetics so they're not only great in the paddock but also perform well in the show ring. Although as a teenager a farming accident fundamentally changed the family farm it was obvious to Rachael that the farm was...
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Episode 60. Kim Wilson
Kim Wilson and husband Greg are 50/50 share farmers in South West Victoria, where they are running a really successful business that is simple and repeatable and an incredibly positive representation of share farming done well. Kim is managing a large team of staff, but believes it's doing the...
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Episode 59. Sammie Smith
Sammie Smith has a passion for getting people in a room and helping to make dairy the best it possibly can be. Coming from the Bega Valley, she is currently sharing her time between one of the smallest farms and one of the largest in the region, working both on her family farm milking 150 and...
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Episode 58. Jimmy Eggert
Jimmy Eggert runs a micro dairy where he is currently milking 30 cows and producing Hastings riverlands, an organic milk and yoghurt, and whilst he might be laid back in nature and very young, he certainly has a work ethic and mindset that is all about making the most of the opportunity he has.…
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Episode 57. Erica Dibden
Erica Dibden and husband Nic farm on the South Coast of NSW where they have created Tilba Dairy, producing milk, yoghurt, cream and a mix of soft and hard cheeses to add value and help create a profitable farming business. Although the ultimate goal would be to have a factory on farm, they've…
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Episode 56. Mia Ryan
Mia Ryan struggled to find love as a farmer, and although trying via the normal visits to the pub and other dating apps, she found the apps weren't working especially given her rural location... so she asked the question where is the dating app for farmers?? Her answer, there wasn't one…
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Episode 55. Liza Fahey
Liza Fahey farms in South West Victoria and works at Dairy Australia with a real passion for people, and to see them develop and grow, not only in dairy but also across all of her many interest areas, of which there are many. In this chat she shares her experience completing her apprenticeship…
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Episode 54. Max Bond
Max Bond has recently returned home to his family farm in Cooriemungle and to say he is passionate and energetic about farming and the wider industry would be an understatement. In this chat he shares about his school based apprenticeship and studies at Longerenong College, why he made the call…
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Episode 53. Part 2 - Aaron Thomas
This is the second part of my incredible chat with Aaron Thomas, so if you haven't listened to part 1 yet, head there first and then come back here because you won't want to miss this chat. In this week's epsidoe Aaron shares his involvement within industry and the newly formed Dairy Farmers...
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Episode 53. PART 1 - Aaron Thomas
Aaron Thomas farms with Paul & Lisa Mumford in South East Gippsland, starting in a farm hand role and slowly progressing, taking on more responsibility and every opportunity to gain experience and knowledge as a self proclaimed sponge. He believed he was ready to take the next step and when Lisa…
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Episode 52. Pia Osborne
Pia Osborne is an animal lover with a real passion for farming. Currently she is working in Gippsland in a farming family business but her farming career began in large scale corporate farms after working as a vet nurse. In today's chat Pia shares the differences between the farming systems, how...
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Episode 51. Brendan Saunders
Brendan Saunders grew up in New Zealand and farming was always going to be what he was going to do. Now if you've listened to Nicole's episode from a couple of weeks ago, you'll have half of the story… but there is so much more to hear. Brendan loves a simple farming system! From the way he grows...
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Episode 50. Chloe Brown
This week to celebrate 50 episodes, we are doing things a bit differently - the guest today is me!!! It is the most commonly asked question, when will you share your story? so here it is, why I'm involved in dairy and how and why the podcast came to be. I am joined by my lovely friend Renata...
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Episode 49. Nicole Saunders
Nicole Saunders moved to Australia from New Zealand with husband Brendan in 2018 and has been focused on growth ever since. Starting out as sharefarmers, they've grown each year allowing them to be in a position to purchase their current farm, lease another dairy and have multiple outpaddocks…
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Episode 48. PART 2 - Will Ryan
Will Ryan currently sharefarms alongside partner Kate in Lardner. But the path to get there certainly hasn't been straight forward. In Part 1 of this incredible chat he shared how after finishing school, unsure of what he wanted to do, he returned home to his parent's dairy farm, who had ridden…
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Episode 48. PART 1 - Will Ryan
Will currently sharefarms alongside partner Kate in Lardner… but the path to get there certainly hasn't been straight forward. And as you will notice this is only part 1 of this incredible chat, because it's a big one - so after finishing school, unsure of what he wanted to do, Will returned home...
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More than Milk shares the incredible stories of the farmers and industry professionals from the dairy industry. Showcasing the diversity, the challenges, the successes and the passion for all things dairy.
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