Bream Creek dairy farmer Jack Bignell says the supermarket chain made an offer their bank manager said was too good to refuse.
Image: ABC Rural : Tony Briscoe

Bream Creek were supplying to Fonterra as well as distributing fresh milk under their own label, which recently won a Tasmanian Fine Food Award.

Jack Bignell says the contract with Coles will mean the milk is processed at Lenah Valley instead of being trucked to Spreyton to process.

Four small calves in a paddock at a dairy in Bream Creek in southern Tasmania looking at the camera

He says the dairy has also changed the way it handles poddy calves who will now spend more time on farm to grow and fatten for processing.

Ernakulam Regional Milk Producers Cooperative Society (Milma) is set to become one of India’s fully solar-powered dairy.

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