Properly resourced Cheesemakers benefit both the consumer and farmers.
Where cheesemaking excellence is pursued the resulting increase in value can be shared across a whole region. This increase in value can be measured directly: i.e. achieving higher milk prices: or indirectly through harder-to-quantify values such as increased cultural value or awareness of a region’s unique farming practices, people, history or traditions etc.
Where there is more diversity in the size and scale and working practices of cheesemakers, and where there is greater opportunity to develop technical competence of cheesemakers, there will be an uplift in the value of milk, provided all those cheesemakers are able to access that milk.