Inside this community farm that supplies Nestlé with thousands of litres of milk a day
Business Insider SAWe visited the Springfontein dairy farm in rural KwaZulu-Natal, Nestle's biggest black-owned milk supplier. We looked at the milk production process of the farm, from prepping the cows' udders to milking and storing. Producing 11,000 litres of milk a day and supplying it to Nestlé, a leading global food producer, was a far-fetched idea for the Springfontein dairy farm, which started out just producing 800 litres a day and primarily for their own consumption.
Upon resettling on their land in 2002, the community relied on subsistence farming until the intervention of Nestlé in 2008. The food producer worked together with Inyosi Empowerment, the community of Makhoba , and other entities in the farming and agriculture fraternity to develop the dairy farm. To ensure the milk is of supreme quality, it is let out from the cows' udders at a body temperature of roughly 35°C. It is regulated down to 4°C as quickly as possible to curb bacterial growth.
"The Nestlé tanker is also an isolated tanker… with thick isolation sidewalls. There, the cold chain is again in place, it will be kept below 5°C all the way, right to the point of processing, and then it will go to manufacturing," said Hoven. Nestle's collection tanker truck which has thick sided insulated walls for cold storage.
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