Lion initiative turns beer and juice waste into more milk

Andrew Marshall
Updated April 10 2017 - 9:15am, first published 6:00am
Lion suppliers, Ray and Catherine De Vere, who farm west of Nambour on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, with their cows sampling brewers' grain from Lion's XXXX brewery, and Lion farm services officer, Cameron Whitson, poised to shout everybody a beer.
Lion suppliers, Ray and Catherine De Vere, who farm west of Nambour on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, with their cows sampling brewers' grain from Lion's XXXX brewery, and Lion farm services officer, Cameron Whitson, poised to shout everybody a beer.

Dairy farmers in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia have started cashing in on a deal offering by-products from beer and fruit juice plants as a stock feed supplement for their herds.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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