The Canterbury Sheep Dairy Association will have members from June 1. Tt about 80 potential members.
“A major milk processor has said if there are around 30,000 ewes locally being milked it will consider putting in a dedicated processing plant,” spokesman David Waghorn said.
At 1.5 to two litres a ewe that adds up to 45,000-60,000 litres a day at peak.
Depending on whether lambs are reared by the ewe for the first five to six weeks or reared artificially the annual production per ewe could be 230 to 330 litres giving 6.9-9.9 million litres.
