Mountain Milk Co-op, Australia’s newest dairy cooperative, started trading Sunday July 1, offering a new start for a group of committed dairy farmers in the Kiewa Valley of north-east Victoria.
Australian Dairy Farms Group subsidiary Camperdown Dairy Company has signed what it says is a ‘significant new contract processing agreement’ with an international food company.
If Australian consumers consumed recommended levels of dairy foods, then the nation could trim its healthcare budget by at least AUS $2bn (€1.5bn), according to a new industry-backed study.
Australian dairy manufacturers are looking beyond their borders for new forms of innovation to shake up product manufacturing as part of an inaugural award designed to encourage global thinking amongst processors.
An ongoing dispute over just how sweet and wholesome milk really
is, could be about to get political, if Australia's shadow
agricultural minister gets his way.
Australian dairy leaders, facing the worst drought on record in
their country, have launched an industry-wide sustainability drive
to improve the sector's environmental credentials.
Australia's dairy industry will spend $850,000 on research to find
novel milk proteins that could be used in functional foods to
improve nutrition and combat major diseases.
