Keith Woodford: The wholemilk powder conundrum Keith Woodford explores the changing markets for wholemilk powder and the challenge facing New Zealand. The conundrum for New Zealand dairy is that its current focus and dependence on wholemilk powder is a function of past opportunities. Europe still exports moderate quantities of wholemilk powder, but the overall trend is clearly downwards from a major to a minor product. As well as wholemilk powder, New Zealand also produces skimmilk powder, However, in contrast to wholemilk powder, many other countries produce large quantities of skimmilk powder, largely as a co-product of butter and other fat-based products. Since 2014, New Zealand's wholemilk powder production has drifted back to 1,370,000 tonnes in 2016, largely because of wholemilk powder production being less economic than other products such as cheese.

Source: Stuff July 05, 2017 00:56 UTC