Organic Milk Facts

Think of organic as a guaranteed standard

Organic Farms

The home of no-nonsense milk

Healthy Cows

Healthy cows mean healthy milk for you

Forget Fad Diets

Our cows only eat organic food, never GM

The Birds and the Bees

Our milk helps British wildlife to flourish

From The Ground Up

The best milk starts with the best soil

Cows Love Routine

You could set your watch by our milking schedule

Chilled Out

Our milk is kept in controlled conditions for maximum food safety

No Nasties

Everything you’d expect and nothing you wouldn’t means all our milk is naturally pure

Passing The Test

Only the highest-quality milk leaves the farm

Made To Measure

Skimmed, semi-skimmed or full fat, we make the lot

A Glass Act

Does organic taste different?

Aisles Of Goodness

Organic milk is available at most major supermarkets

What Does Organic Mean?

Standards you can trust

Kids On The Farm

Teaching children about organic farming

Free-range Cows

Some cows never go into the fields – that’s not how we do things

Whiter Than White Stuff

The purest milk, guaranteed

Why Organic Milk Costs More

And how you get what you pay for

Antibiotics and milk

Smart farming keeps everything pure

When Organic Milk Leaves The Farm

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Once our milk leaves the farm it begins its journey to supermarket shelves.

Every 48 hours, milk is collected from the farm by an OMSCo-accredited tanker. The driver inspects the milk and can reject it based on a range of criteria. If the milk passes this initial assessment, the tanker heads for the dairy, usually delivering within a few hours.

The tanker driver takes a sample of each collection, puts it in a sample pot and sends it off to the labs to be tested. If the milk fails any of these tests, it is rejected and the whole batch is thrown out. It’s our way of making sure our organic standards are there in the milk you buy.

When the tanker reaches the dairy, further tests are carried out to ensure the first test was reliable. Once it’s passed all the necessary tests, our milk is decanted into chilled, stainless steel silos for maximum protection.

How we make milk

Farm

It takes two years to become an organic farm

Raising cows

We select and breed cows specifically suited to organic life

We never use pesticides or chemicals on our farms

Grazing and Ecosystem

No GM – Our cows only eat organic, natural food

Smarter farming means working with our natural assets

You might not expect it, but good milk starts with good soil.

We have never and will never use artificial pesticides, insecticides, fungicides or herbicides

Milking

Milking time comes twice a day

Eating, resting and socialising – that’s free-range life.

The dairy

The milk is stored, ready for collection

Pasteurisation

The milk is prepared for bottling.

Milk leaves the farm

An OMSCo trucker collects the milk and tests it for quality

Buy organic milk

Look out for organic milk in your local supermarkets

Drink organic milk