Dairy ‘disrupter’ wins science award for inventing spreadable butter in 1970s

Dairy farmer Geoff Boxsell says he was horrified when margarine, a spreadable substitute for butter, began to dominate supermarket shelves and family homes.

In 1973, recognising consumers were fed up with tough-to-use butter, Mr Boxsell decided to invent a butter that would spread — despite it…