The UK’s largest independent cheese producer Wyke Farms has opened a new £10m butter dairy.
The Somerset-based business, which is run by the Clothier family in Bruton, said the new facility would produce butter with a longer shelf-life, allowing for shipping to premium export markets. The company said it planned to bring its ‘Ivy’s Reserve Salted Farmhouse Butter’ product - billed as the world’s first carbon neutral butter - to market in the second quarter of the current financial year.
Part of the brand’s five-year growth plan, the expansion of Wyke Farms dairy volume output was supported by a £480,000 grant from the Rural Development Programme for England, jointly funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
