Different countries have different food standards and requirements. In Australia, the standards are high, and the milk is safe. Milk and other dairy products are nutritious food sources. Australian milk does not contain artificial hormones, antibiotics, blood and pus.
“Australian dairy products are well regarded, both domestically and internationally, and that is due to the high-quality milk we produce. It's important that we recognise those in our industry who are producing our best milk.
New Zealand's grass-fed cows produce some of the world's best quality milk. The quality of the milk cows produce is directly related to their diet and environment. So it's no wonder that New Zealand's pasture-fed cows, feasting on our lush green grass, produce some of the best milk in the world.
Hormones such as, estrogen, progesterone, prostaglandin and cortisone are found in low concentrations in milk. These hormones are naturally produced by the cow. When you drink milk, these hormones are digested by enzymes in the gut and as a result, are broken down and not absorbed in their active form.
In the first half of 2022, ABARES said milk production was about 7 per cent lower than the same period in 2021. This was driven by extreme weather events like a drier-than-average start of the year in southern Victoria and northwest Tasmania and flooding in regions of Queensland and northern New South Wales.
The majority of milk production occurs on the south-east seaboard in Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania.
Cow's milk is a natural source of nutrition. It's the biggest contributor of calcium to the Australian diet and provides a range of other nutrients for good health. Cow's milk has been enjoyed for thousands of years and is used to make some of our favourite foods, including cheese, yoghurt and custard.
Because hormones like estrogen are fat-soluble, the level of hormones is higher in whole milk than in skim milk. Organic milk, however, contains about the same amount of hormones as conventionally produced milk.
Other countries have been known to use Recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST), a hormone used to increase milk production. These are strictly prohibited in the production of milk in Australia.
Finnish milk is among the cleanest milk in the world thanks to healthy cows. The superior quality of Valio milk is ensured by expert milk producers supported by first-class advisory services. Valio milk ranks among the cleanest in the world, and we have zero tolerance for antibiotic residue in milk.
India ranks first in milk production in the world contributing 24% of global milk production.
The country with the highest per capita consumption of fluid milk in 2022 was Belarus. The average person in Belarus consumed about 114.9 kilograms of milk in that year. Ukraine came in second with approximately 113.27 kilograms of fluid milk per person.
A 100% Australian-owned dairy company
The Australian dairy farms that supply our Riverina Fresh milk are owned and operated by our passionate farmers, many who are second generation. They are experts in dairy and are committed to producing quality fresh milk.
Lite or “light” milk is another name for low fat milk and must contain no more than 1.5% fat content under food law. Reduced fat milk has approximately 2% fat and regular milk has on average 3.5% fat and no less than 3.2% fat.
Australia is a small producer of milk but is the world's third largest dairy exporter as 50% of production is exported. The Australia's dairy industry is Australia's third largest rural industry, ranking behind wheat and beef, and has a gross value of $4 billion.
Boiling milk can help eliminate traces of oxytocin. Oxytocin is one such injection that not only affects the cattle but also humans. The injected oxytocin reaches the human body through consumption of milk or any other dairy product causing several side effects on all.
Despite the fact that the main source of androgens and in particular testosterone is the testes but previous studies showed the presence of testosterone (45–150 pg/ml) and other members of androgens family including 5α-androstane-3, 17-dion (1–5 ng/ml) in cows, milk (53, 54).
Milk is an outstanding source of protein, calcium, and vitamin D. It can also keep testosterone in check for men with low levels.
The A1 beta-casein type is the most common type found in cow's milk in Europe (excluding France), the US, Australia and New Zealand.
In Australia, most cows have a diet that is made up of grass, which is either grazed or supplied as hay or silage, with a small amount of grain and mineral supplements to fill any nutritional gaps.
Our milk is collected from dedicated Farmers' Own farmers in most states of Australia. Milk is collected from lots of farms across the states. It is then delivered to our processors and kept separate from other milk where it is bottled into Farmers' Own Bottles.
According to this website it is from Victoria.
The core products sold under Dairy Farmers brand are fresh milk (in New South Wales and Queensland only) and UHT "long-life" milk (Australia wide), as well as various other dairy snacks.