The Dairy Moving Forward initiative is a national dairy industry initiative funded out of the Victorian Governments Provincial Statement. There are a number of initiatives under the Dairy Moving Forward umbrella, including direct infrastructure investment, research support, human capability building, facilitating the ongoing industry planning and fore sighting to facilitate the industry taking advantage of future opportunities. The initiative is governed by the Dairy Moving Forward Committee. The committee includes representatives of: 

• Australian Dairy Farmers 
• Australian Dairy Products Federation
• Dairy Australia
• Department of Primary Industries  Victoria
• Geoffrey Gardiner Foundation
• National Dairy Alliance
• Regional Development Victoria
• United Dairy Farmers Victoria

Information relating to projects:

Strategic context and future, with possible focus areas for collective action
Articulates an agreed industry strategic context, likely drivers for the next decade and identifies areas of possible industry collective action.  The report shows a positive outlook for the Australian dairy industry over  the next decade but with a number of challenges to address along the way. 

Australian Dairy Industry: Focus areas for collective effort

Expenditure and infrastructure data for Australian dairy Research Development and Extension in Australia 2007
These reports provide a high level snapshot of Australian Dairy RD&E in 2007. The views are from both expenditure and infrastructure perspectives and incorporate both funder and provider information.
The reports also draw comparisons to similar studies in the past showing a reduction of funding and staffing of around 20 per cent and significant shifts in capability and funders.

Summary Report: Updating of Expenditure and Infrastructure for Dairy RD&E in Australia 2007
Estimate of total Expenditure on dairy research, development and extension in Australia 2006-07
Inventory of the physical infrastructure and human resources devoted to dairy farm RD&E in Australia, 2007