BDF Blog
Hi and welcome to Bannister Downs’ blog. We look forward to bringing you information on up and coming events, trade shows, our latest product launches and the latest awards presented to us or our delicious milks and creams. We’d love to hear from you too with any new products you’d like to try too!!”
Sue & Mat Daubney
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Good day. I have bought your produce before from the fruit and vegetable store in Kirup on my way home from Bunbury. Knowing how good your produce is I was absolutely delighted to recently find it in the Pioneer Store (IGA) Walpole. I bought milk and cream and for the first time your Mango Smoothie — and I will be coming back for more! I will be encouraging the Pioneer Store in Walpoe to continue to stock your produce and to get more of your flavored milks. Thank you. Do you have your produce for sale at your farm (in the Dairy Lounge Café?). Have you considered ice cream? I am looking forwardnto trying yur cheese that i haven’t seen yet.
With good wishes
Harold W S Luxton (Walpole)
Hi
would just like to thank you for a amazing tasting drink….. we have tried the chocolate and the mango milk. both are amazing in taste, so gream and light but most importantly very tastie!!!
thanks
cheryl whitsed
Dear Sue & Mat,
I read with shock that WA is going to import China milk. We need to protect the quality of Australia Food Supplies. Why do we allow tainted developing countries food produce to reach our shore?
Instead, we should be supplying quality Aussie milk to China. What is the point of an economic booms if we suffer in living standards.
Please read these articles.
2008 Chinese milk scandal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
‘Leather Milk’ Surfaces in China
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china/leather-milk-surfaces-in-china-51637.html
Demand grows for action over milk powder shortage
http://www.cdeclips.com/en/hongkong/fullstory.html?id=59657
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-02/16/c_13734910.htm
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/chinese-buying-dutch-baby-milk-powder
Chinese traders are buying up large quantities of baby milk powder in Dutch shops and supermarkets. Outlets in some areas of the Netherlands have limited the amount that can be sold at one time, because the bulk buying is making it difficult for Dutch residents to get hold of milk powder for their babies. Why are the Chinese buying up Dutch supplies?
The bottle feeding of infants is important in China as it is everywhere else. Both this year and in 2009, cases hit the headlines of Chinese babies becoming ill and even dying because the toxic substance melamine had been added to milk powder manufactured domestically. The adverse publicity has caused many Chinese parents to buy baby milk produced abroad.
We need dairy farmers like you!
Joshua
Hi Joshua, I couldnt agree more – our food security needs to be guaranteed as we are a county that is capable of producing all of its own food, and yet slowly foreign ownership is creeping into all of our household brands and fresh produce supplies, once these foreign countries find their demand for food has increased, Australia will find that the food that it thought it owned, is actually owned by foreign countries.
The melamime incident in China does highlight the need for tight control on food production and insuring that the sources of our food supplies are regulated to Australian Standards.
Thankfully more and more people are becoming aware of these issues and making very deliberate ethical choices in their purchasing decisions. This is what makes it possible for us to be able to survive in the retail market, as we know that many companies produce and sell milk at below cost value, just to achieve market share etc whilst they cross subsidise these losses with other more valuable food items (ice cream, yoghurt, cheese etc).
We just do our best and time is telling us that many people are now appreciating the quality and honesty of our products.
Thanks Again
Sue
Thought I had better be the first to put an entry into this blogspace
. We are very excited to have our TV campaign for 2011 underway, with our advertisement running on Channel 9 and Gem. We also have a promotion this weekend at the opening of the new Coles Ellenbrook store ( 17-22 March ) with great bonuses on offer. Our girls are looking forward to some rain down this way, hopefully we get an early start this year!
It was such a treat to meet a real dairy farmer and his father in Coles Ellenbrook yesterday. Needless to say after tasting your deliscious milk I took home a selection of flavoured and plain milk for the family to try. The Mango puree went down a treat with the fruit pancakes for breakfast this morning and everyone agrees its the best milk they have ever tasted. We will definately be back for more, its so good to be able to give the kids something that you know is real milk and healthy for them. Please keep it coming.
Thank you Bev – we love getting out and about talking to people about our products and our farm
Hi
I just wanted to thank you for your dedication to delightful dairy milk and cream. As an avid food lover and cook I orginally turned to your cream after noticing a change in flavour and an odd after taste in the regular creams on offer. Thank fully we have a good supply where we live as i do not anything else!We now only drink your milks to we support the local industry and actually know what we are consuming. The eco packaging is a winner.
May you prosper and grow as I hope a great many people are horrified by what is happening with the current supermarket wars designed to reduce competition and control food production.
Abundant blessings
Sharon
My son is a vet student and has alerted me to the genetic breeding of cows so they produce more milk. Many of these cows live in a state of pain from mastitis and clinical lameness because of the size of their udders.
Are your cows breed for welfare traits as well as milk production? I have started to buy your milk hoping your cows are not purely bred to give maxium milk and live in pain.
Can you please assure me that as well as organic your farm is concerned about the welfare of their cows.
I recently tried your milk and it reminded me of how milk tasted 50 years ago. I since then browsed thru your website.
I am impressed with your ethic, the eco packaging, the commitment to not use GM products, and to your commitment to deliver the freshest milk to your customers.
I’d like to ask a couple of questions;
Have you, or are you considering producing A2 milk, and
Are you considering feeding your cows on pasture only (ie no grains), and
Have you considered making unpasteurised milk available to customers?
Cheers.
So great to see a South West based dairy getting produce into our supermarkets again. Disgusts me to see fundamental produce (bread, milk, cheese etc) traveling 5000 kms from over east when we have such great food being produced in our own back yard. It helps that it tastes fantastic – never been a big milk drinker by it self, but when I tasted the whole milk by it self I just had to have another glass.
Applaud your eco efforts too. Keep up the great work and best of luck getting market penetration – I certainly have told others how good this stuff is.
Hi
It is so good to find a WA milk product that does not contain permeates! Keep up the good work I am putting your name out there as much as I can – because businesses like you are so imortant to our lifestyle!
My taste buds dance with delight each time I drink your full cream milk. Way to go Bannister Downs!
Have only just heard about your milk today. The ladies I played Mah-Jong with today, highly recommend it. I try to follow an alkaline diet, and regular pasteurised milk is acid forming, due to the heat of the pasteurisation process so I was interested in reading on your website, that you pasteurise at a lower temperature than other dairies. Do you know, by any chance, if your milk is alkaline forming? I guess Jaahda Jinnah (post above) is intersted in un pasteurised milk for the same reason as I am, so that it is alkaline. I notice on your website though that you say pasteurisation is a legal requirement….what a shame.
Hey guys,
Mum bought me some of your milk recently (she grew up in Northcliffe andI spent plenty of time there as well). What a great product! I really like your packaging. I shows a real interest in corporate social resposibility. The milk was great too!
Terence Boylen.
Banister Downs is the only milk my partner and I will buy. Not only does it taste great we like supporting a family owned WA company.
Hi Bannister Downs crew,
I’m absolutely delighted to be able to buy your products in Kununurra. Alan and Judy Daubney are old friends from Walpole days in the ’70′s. I’m guessing that Mat and Sue are related to them. So for me, it follows, that any company with the Daubney name is one with integrity. I love the mango and choc milks and look forward to being able to buy more of your products if and when they become available in Kununurra.