Another change on the Canterbury Plains is on the horizon. It is white and or black, with some shades of brown, has four legs, provides us with a white liquid fit for human consumption but it goes baa instead of moo! Sheep milking is starting to make headway with a handful of farmers milking small flocks of sheep to provide consumers with highly nutritional milk products such as cheese, yoghurt, fresh milk and gelato. Sarah O’Connell is taking a closer look at the opportunities and challenges of the sheep milking industry.
Read MoreThe Red Meat Profit Partnership set up action groups to put farmers in control of what they want to improve, how they want to achieve it and who they wish to get help from to learn and implement required changes. The AgriBusiness Group has been involved with the facilitation of these groups for the last 16 months.
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