''Giving wheat growers a guaranteed market in our supermarkets provides long-term surety of supply and the knowledge that if they plant crops, we will take them. Champion Flour makes more than 50% of cereal products in New Zealand and is owned by Japanese company Nisshin Seifun. Associated British Foods owns George Weston and makes Ploughmans, Tip Top and Burgen bread. New Zealand growers supplied 30% of what was needed in the country and the remainder came from Australia. Mr Talbot said the milling wheat tonnage had dropped in South Canterbury since many arable farmers had opted to grow feed wheat.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 04, 2018 16:30 UTC