Backbone of Britain: Yorkshire-based cheesemakers offer lifeline to sheep milk producers during Covid-19 market plummet

Determined to help its sheep milk suppliers when lockdown hit, family-run cheesemakers Shepherds Purse fast tracked the launch of a new product to create some demand for the specialist raw material it was handling. Hannah Park reports.

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Backbone of Britain: Yorkshire-based cheesemakers offer lifeline to sheep milk producers during Covid-19 market plummet

Determined to help its sheep milk suppliers when lockdown hit, family-run cheesemakers Shepherds Purse fast tracked the launch of a new product to create some demand for the specialist raw material it...

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