FARMERS who supplied a failed dairy have been signed up by the UK’s largest independent dairy which is now looking to recruit more suppliers from the area.
County Durham-based Rock Farm Dairy ceased trading last month and informed its dairy farmers that their contracts would not be renewed.
However, Meadow Foods has stepped in and signed up all 17 farmers to supply their 11m litres of milk to its Holme on Spalding Moor plant, near York, which produces its sweetened dairy products including condensed milk and chocolate crumb.
Jim Bebb, Meadow Foods’ milk procurement director, said: “We’re delighted to have been able to secure the supply from these farms and create an ex-farm milk field for our Holme-on-Spalding-Moor site.
“We now aim to build on this position and secure additional farms in the area to further extend our presence in Yorkshire and the North-East.”
The new farms take Meadow Food’s total milk supply to more than 610m litres from nearly 660 farms. It also extends its area from South Wales to the Midlands and now the North of England.
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