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Sheep cheese trade

PA Wellington New Zealand may try to break into the lucrative world market for sheep’s milk cheeses with the Dairy Board interested in developing such products. European sheep’s milk fetta cheese has a wholesale price of about $4OOO a tonne in Australia. World sheep’s milk cheese consumption is about 77,000 tonnes a year. The Middle East market takes about 50,000 tonnes and Central and South America 20,000 tonnes-.

The board believes New Zealand sheep’s milk fetta cheese could be sold for about $2500 a tonne as it is a non-traditional supplier. The board’s senior tech-* nical officer, Mr A. J. Christiansen, told a sheep milking forum in Christchurch last week that production should be concentrated initially on developing a product which satisfied local demand. “In the longer term, a high quality New Zealand product could expect a reasonable market in the

United States at high returns,” he said. Seven Canterbury farmers intend supplying sheep’s milk this year for fetta production at the small Barry’s Bay diary company near Akaroa. About 1000 ewes will be milked and a further 1000 are likely to join the scheme for the 1980-81 season. However, according to the Barry’s Bay factory manager, Mr C. D. Wallace, two or three further seasons are needed to develop a potential market pattern in New Zealand.

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Press, 14 April 1979, Page 24

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Sheep cheese trade Press, 14 April 1979, Page 24

Sheep cheese trade Press, 14 April 1979, Page 24

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