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The notion that 50/50 sharemilkers will one day own their farms seems to be disappearing.

This season many sharemilkers are questioning their decision to go dairy farming, but Northland sharemilker Gavin Hogarth has tried different career options and smaller herd farming is the one that suits him best.

Many dairy farmers are discussing the virtues of Fonterra’s loan for sharemilkers, and the consensus seems to be to see it as a last resort.

Roger and Sarah Smith returned from China to New Zealand in 2012 to take up a 150 cow, 50:50 sharemilking contract near Pukekohe.

Federated Farmers say sharemilkers urgently need to go through partial budgets with their farm owners.

A dairy farm consultant says he is worried that this season’s low milk price will tip some young, innovative dairy farmers out of the industry.

The May 31 traditional end of the dairying season and June 1 as the start of the next one has always been called Gypsy Day, when 50:50 sharemilkers or contract and lower order milkers move to new and often bigger jobs milking more cows as they follow a path to farm ownership.

FEDERATED FARMERS will launch its new and improved Herd Owning Sharemilking Agreement to dairy farmers tomorrow (October 1).

FEDERATED FARMERS is blowing the whistle on the 80% of sharemilkers who are yet to vote in the 2014 DairyNZ Levy referendum with just over a week until it closes.

DAIRY FARMING leaders are urging sharemilkers to have their own say on the future of their industry.