Udder Farm Milk and Milk products, not from the multi-national factory, but from a dairy farmer in Luskintyre, who prepares fresh non-homogenised milk, cream and cheese and supplies corner stores in the Hunter as well as a market at The Entrance. This farmer follows his dream.

Considering how milk supplies lots of protein and calcium along with carbs and fat, it now offers even greater value for money at $2 for two litres of some brands of fresh milk as recently discounted by the duopoly. The 'squeeze' is on the dairy farmer.







Milk is miles ahead of a bottle of sugar and water as in cordials. 
Coco Cola costs $3.45 for two litres. Pepsi or Schweppes lemonade are $2.65 for two litres. One brand of mineral water is $2.39 for 750 ml of
Adams ale.
All of which is totally out of proportion. There must be big dollars in cordial, useless as it is.

All the same, apart from fats and sugar, both milk and cordial have been criticised from a health point of view but that's not mainstream.


Cow herds wait near the gate and know where to cross the road, day after day.

A Creamery, a road side collection point.
In past times, believe cream was produced by those who were a long way out of town and outside the official dairy system. The volume of cream was a manageable quantity as compared to milk. Doh. The farmer seperated milk into cream and low fat milk. The milk was use to raise calves and pigs and the cream was sold, most likely, for butter making. 
Nation wide network for fast internet?  In your dreams!  No distance out of town by own standards and even mobile phone coverage ceases to exist. Cow-cockeys must have much better phones that work well in the countryside. It doesn't worry me but it shows up the weaknesses in the system.
We are not very inventive. There would be certain aerials that a local could build as an active point of contact by the community of mobile phones. I guess there is money to be made in keeping non-mobile landlines in use.

Dairy sheds become a home.



Another dairy shed this time converted into a house. Cattle still roam around the hills judging by the close network of little tracks around the slopes.

Another dairy.

 

  

Dairy farming must have been rationalised some time ago and all round the regions, little milking sheds sit idle but not necessarily empty and make another fascinating photo - not!

 

Mechanical parts are stored in a pit in the shed which had a herringbone layout. It is not clear how that operated as a dairy. Was the pit covered by grating to collect waste?  Moo knows!

Old Dairy.
Less common in brick work.