Fonterra launches $1500 on-farm funding for eligible farmers
Over 85% of Fonterra farmer suppliers will be eligible for customer funding up to $1,500 for solutions designed to drive on-farm efficiency gains and reduce emissions intensity.
NZ Specialty Cheese Makers Association chair Catherine McNamara says while the EU has unlimited access to the NZ market, two-way trade is nigh impossible.
She says the cost of exporting chesse to the EU is prohibitive.
She says competing againsts subsidised European cheese together with the high cost of freight means that the price NZ would have to sell its produce for would be way above that of locally produced cheese.
McNamara, who is also the owner and managing director of award winning Grinning Gecko Cheese in Northland, says her big hope is that NZ consumers will support local cheesemakers as they try to deal with the challenges they now face.
