Make mine milk: Richard’s a real bottler

Erle Levey

Milk. It’s something so simple, yet surprisingly complex to produce.

Fresh milk … there is nothing quite as uncomplicated when it comes to a food.

It’s something we can easily take for granted.

Most know that dairy milk comes from a farm.

Yet how many know that it is one of the most intricate processes to get it from paddock to table?

Richard Schroder has been doing just that for most of his life.

And he cannot think of anything he would rather be doing.

Getting the best quality milk possible from the farm to the customers.

Richard has been processing Cooloola Milk at the Dagun factory for 21 years. As such he is the longest-running independent processor in Australia under the current legislation.

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