Third-generation dairy farmerDale Hanks at his dairy.Mr Hanks was one of the handful of farmers who had their futures jeopardised when Brownes, the state's oldest dairy company, failed to renew his contract in 2016.
"Other processors in the state wouldn't give us a contract either; we were left with no other option than to wind up our business — 350 cows in milk at the time," Mr Hanks said.The dairy was a ghost town for 18 months until Mr Hanks secured a new contract in 2018."I think it's a great way of value-adding to a waste product which is the whey that comes out of cheesemaking," he said.
The majority of Mr Hanks's milk goes into mainstream white milk processing, but a fraction is diverted down the road to Harvey Cheese.Mr Hanks encouraged other farmers to seek additional avenues for their milk to boost viability.Award-winning cheesemaker's brainchild The WA whey spirit is the creation of Mr St Duke, a regular award winner for his cheese varieties, who said it was all about ensuring primary industry producers worked together to benefit the region.
"Wokalup – which is 'pull a cow' backwards -- is in the Harvey region and has a big farming history," Mr St Duke said."There's great scope for a lot of farmers out there who could put it [a distillery] on their own farms and sell it themselves," he said.Mr St Duke says the whey spirit, branded the Horny Cow, is made sustainably by recycling the cheese waste."We need to keep the dairy [industry] here, not lose it to the eastern seaboard," he said.
U absolute losers! One of the cruellest industries in the world. U support AnimalCruelty
Who would ever want to help an industry that rapes, murders and molests cows to steal what's theirs and sell it to grown adults who refuse to wean themselves? Dairy
Let's hope Tony Abbott doesn 't drink any in public, eh?
A barbaric, planet-destroying industry desperate or relevance. ditchdairy
Just have to add coffee🙂
Here in BNE Queensland that we gave the milk products a wage increase that we pay $3.10 for 2L it was $2.40 and wooah the milk is beautiful that you have to pay the milk master machine for the better quality sounds Bitcoin
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