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OPINION: Farmers won't get any credit for this from the daily media, so Milking It is giving the bouquets where they’re due.
OPINION: It could be cod on your cornflakes and sardines in your smoothie if food innovators in Indonesia have their way.
With almond milk, oat milk and pea milk already here, standby for… fish milk? A shortage of dairy cows in some regions of Indonesia has seen scientists suggest a novel source of protein, fish ‘milk’.
The Wall Street Journal reports that fishermen off the coast of Indramayu are taking boatloads of the local ponyfish to a factory to be deboned and ground down to powder. The protein-rich product is then mixed with either or chocolate or strawberry to make it ‘palatable’.
“It just tastes like normal milk, at least to me,” one deluded fisherman told the WSJ.
Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Indonesia’s health minister, told the WSJ that other options to deal with declining dairy cow stocks should be pursued first.
“We can grow cows… or we can import the milk from Australia. Or we can buy an Australian cow company or milk company,” Sadikin says. “There are many, many, many options to do before we are milking the fish.”
New Zealand’s dairy sector cannot expect India to be a market for all its dairy products.
Meat processor ANZCO Foods’ net profit has plunged on the back of lower market returns which squeezed margins and impacted business performance.
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AgriZeroNZ has entered a new partnership with Britain's national innovation agency, Innovate UK.
Twenty rural community hubs across New Zealand will receive $5,000 to upgrade their facilities having been selected as the winners of Rabobank's Community Hub Competition.
As the dairy industry prepares to celebrate its top achievers at an awards night this Saturday, attendees are being warned to be aware of protests planned outside the venue – Baypark Arena, Mount Mauganaui.
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