Milk is at the heart of Paysan Breton. Every day, their dairy farmers endeavour to provide high-quality milk, the raw material for all of their products. Discover their milk’s journey, from the farmers – the first link in their production line – to the delivery of their products to the shops and onto your plat
1.THE FARM
The manufacturing of every one of their products begins in the same place: on the farm.
To make good products you need good milk, and to make good milk you need happy, healthy and well-fed cows. The temperate climate of Western France is ideal for growing lush green grass, perfect for grazing cows and for producing great milk. Grass is an essential part of a cow’s diet. As well as grass, the cows are given other fodder (hay, corn, rape, beetroot, etc.) and food supplements which provide them with a healthy and balanced diet throughout the year in order to produce quality milk. Paysan Breton’s dairy farmers take great care of their cows, since a happy and healthy cow produces better quality milk. Paysan Breton’s farms are all small-scale, family-run businesses: which count on average 65 cows.
Milking is a privileged moment and is generally carried out twice a day, morning and evening. Hygiene is essential: udders and the milking house are systematically cleaned and disinfected. A cow produces about 21 litres of milk a day. So on average, between 1,100 and 1,500 litres of milk are produced each day on a Paysan Breton farm. The milk is stored in refrigerated tanks, called farm bulk milk tanks, before being collected by their milk tanker drivers. As milk is a fresh product it requires strict storage conditions.
>> The products from Paysan Breton are imported & distributed by New Viet Dairy.
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Source: Paysan Breton