Fresh #milk en route to China

A NEW export industry begins tonight when 4500 bottles of milk from farmer-owned Norco Co-operative in northern NSW are loaded on to a cargo plane in Sydney bound for Shanghai.

#Milk price rises in China as dairy cattle decline

The number of dairy cattle in China has dropped by 2 million in 2013 from a year ago, leading to a decline in milk production by 15%-20%, an expert in the dairy industry told Shanghai’s China Business News, adding that the insufficient supply will continue to push up the price of raw milk.