Brookside Dairy unveils recruitment drive, eyes over 10,000 new raw milk suppliers

Brookside field staff weigh a farmer’s raw milk before putting it into the firm's mobile cooler

Milk processor Brookside Dairy has embarked on a massive farmer recruitment drive aimed at bringing on board more than 10,000 new raw milk suppliers.

The new drive to shore up farmer numbers is in response to the need to procure enough raw milk that would satisfy the processor’s expanded production capacity, after its Ruiru plant underwent a system upgrade last year. The factory’s expansion included installation of a powder milk processing line, which doubled daily raw milk intake capacity to nearly 2 million litres.