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True Taste Dairy Drives Up Demand For Doorstep Deliveries- Full article
- A local dairy is celebrating after winning a top award and bucking the trend of declining doorstep deliveries.
Ty Tanglwyst Dairy in Cornelly near Bridgend has been honoured in the True Taste of Wales Food and Drink Awards 2007/2008 as Best Regional Producer for South East Wales.
The award is in recognition of the business’ astonishing success which has been achieved in less than 18 months.
Milk deliveries have been falling for 20 years and now just 13 per cent of the milk consumed in the UK is delivered to the doorstep, down from 80 per cent in the 1980s.
But it is a very different story at Ty Tanglwyst Farm in Cornelly. So popular is their milk that there is now a waiting list for doorstep delivery. The dairy now bottles all the milk produced by its herd of pedigree black and white Holstein cows - some 12000 litres a week - and supports four milk rounds in Porthcawl, Pyle, Cornelly, Kenfig Hill and Cefn Cribbwr, serving some 1000 homes.
“The milkmen have all seen demand rise since stocking Ty Tanglwyst milk. Because we bottle the milk on our farm it is probably the freshest milk you can buy because it hasn’t travelled hundreds of miles around the country in a tanker,” says Rhys Lougher, who launched Ty Tanglwyst Dairy in May 2006.
Twenty six year old Rhys is the third generation to live at Ty Tanglwyst Farm, but falling prices for milk coupled with rising costs meant that the farm’s future looked uncertain.
Determined to stay on the farm that his family had occupied for generations, Rhys set about researching how he could develop the farm so that it could offer him a living too.
He received a Processing and Marketing grant from the Welsh Assembly Government to help build the new processing facility.
He now employs eight staff to bottle all the milk and delivers it to homes and businesses within a four mile radius of the farm.
The dairy also runs a commercial round delivering to local shops, restaurants, cafes, golf courses and a local icecream maker.
Each of the farm’s 80 cows were born on the farm and they are all individually named, with some of them winning prizes at local agricultural shows, and others visiting local schools with Rhys and dad John to show the children where milk comes from.
“Ty Tanglwyst Farm dates back to Monastic times and I was determined to continue the tradition,” says Rhys, who was also a finalist in the Farmer’s Guardian Young Farmer of the Year Competition.
“We are producing what local people want - fresh, natural milk that is fresher, tastes better and hasn’t travelled long distances.
“They are pleased to support their local farm and comment on how much better our milk tastes.”
CONTACT:
For images contact Leigh Roberts on 01656 788336 or email leigh@colemanroberts.co.uk
For more information please contact Rhys Lougher on 07968 565881
www.tytanglwystdairy.com
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Article published on: 5 December 2007
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