Landcorp considers business case for milking sheep

Landcorp considers business case for milking sheep
By Pam Graham July 1 (BusinessDesk) - Chief executive Steven Carden, who is about one year in the job, says the board gave him a broad mandate to look expansively at opportunities and milking sheep is one he has come up with. Landcorp has a flock of about 850,000 ewes, none of which it milks, but it leases about 1,500 to Invercargill-based Blue River Dairy, an existing processor of sheep milk. “Landcorp has been a very successful sheep farmer for many years,” Carden said.  Landcorp started seriously examining opportunities in th...