Dairy farming on a grand scale in South Africa

Situated just 35km from Cape Town lies the Loubser family’s Fair Cape Dairies which currently produces 70 million litres of milk per year from its herd. The farm is run today by 5 brothers from the Loubser family, each of whom head up a different department. Melt Loubser is the chief executive officer and his brother Johannes looks after the dairy herd. The herd consists predominantly of Holsteins (2,500), 350 Ayrshire cows and 250 Jerseys. The farm has 2,500 hectares of workable land and har