Macroom Buffalo
Macroom Buffalo has Ireland’s first and only herd of of milking water Buffalo. It produces a variety of cheeses including mozzarella, greek style salad cheese and haloumi. Their chesseses are available at a number of farmers markets and a wide range of selected retailers. Furthermore, their brand 'West Cork Fresh Buffalo Mozzarella' is available exclusively at Aldi stores.All the milk produced is converted into cheese on the farm in a state of the art production facility on the farm.
The product that has benefits for primary producers because a central aspect of the success of the company was its ability to seek out a neiche market within the Irish agri-food sector.
Macroom Buffalo eximpifies a novel approach to farm diversification. It will also be interesting to find out how they maintain a constant flow to distribution to their wide array of stockists.
SKIN - Short supply chains Knowledge & Innovation Network
Ongoing | 2016-2019
- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- Italy
Project Keywords
- Aquaculture
- Arable crops
- Organic farming
- Agro-ecology
- Crop rotation/crop diversification/dual-purpose or mixed cropping
- Competitiveness/new business models
- Farm diversification
- Food security, safety, quality, processing and nutrition
- Supply chain, marketing and consumption
- AKIS, incl. advice, training, on-farm demo, interactive innovation projects