New Welsh creamery seeks to recruit dairy farmers

A new Welsh creamery is looking to sign milk contracts with more dairy farmers to get the plant up to full processing capacity.

Pembrokeshire Creamery at Haverfordwest currently has capacity to bottle more than a million litres of milk weekly, but is planning to double this following new investment.

Managing director Mark McQuade said although he is pleased with the level of interest shown by dairy farmers in becoming suppliers, that plant still had “some capacity”.

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The business is planning to use this week’s Pembrokeshire County Show, taking place 14-15 August, as a platform to secure further supply.

Milk produced at Pembrokeshire Creamery © Matt Appleby Consulting

“We are on a mission to support local farming communities and want to be able to source all of our milk as locally as possible,” said Mr McQuade.

BRC certification

The £20m creamery, the only liquid facility in Wales which is British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standards certified to supply major retailers with Welsh milk, started processing milk in May.

It has already announced major deals to supply own-branded milk to Asda and Lidl stores across Wales and has also launched its own milk brand, Blas y Tir, which is Welsh for “taste of the land”.

The Blas y Tir brand is owned by Pembrokeshire Creamery’s sister-business Puffin Produce.