If Australia has reached ‘peak milk’, what does that mean for our food security?

‘Dairy farming is hard work, harder than a number of other agricultural enterprises, and Australia’s dairy farmers are starting to look for greener pastures.’ Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

If the last thing you remember about Australian dairy farmers is the $1 milk price war, it is worth thinking a little more deeply about the white in your flat white and what it signifies for food producers.

Last year, the standing committee on agriculture’s final report into food security, chaired by Labor MP Meryl Swanson, recommended a National Food Plan.