A region once home to hundreds of dairy farms has been running low on milk, with supermarket shelves stripped bare of the essential item.
Milk stocks on supermarket shelves on the Atherton Tablelands are running desperately low
In 2000, about 185 local milk producers supplied the local factory. Today, that number has dropped to about 45, with many squarely pointing the finger at the impacts from the deregulation of the dairy industry 23 years ago. "New South Wales is now producing less milk than it consumes, so our milk is being topped up from farms in Victoria and production has dropped off there due to the cooler weather.Residents in the Atherton Tablelands have taken to social media to express their frustrations about the lack of the 'white gold'.
"We have had customers that have raised concerns about why we don't have milk because we are a big dairy," Mr Bowles said.
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