Lichfield's Cheese - Roadside Stories

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The southern hemisphere's biggest cheese factory is in the small Waikato town of Lichfield. Owned by the Fonterra dairy co-operative -- New Zealand's largest company, responsible for a third of the world's international dairy trade -- the Lichfield factory is the much larger descendant of the many small dairy factories that once dotted the New Zealand countryside.

Dairy factories in the 20th and 21st centuries,
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/agricultural-processing-indus...

Dairying and dairy products,
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/dairying-and-dairy-products

Waikato region: farming,
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/waikato-region/8

Fonterra dairy factories,
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/dairying-and-dairy-products/12/1

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Roadside Stories are a series of audio guides to places of interest on major road trips in New Zealand. Each guide tells the story of an attraction along the way -- its people, its history, its cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit http://www.mch.govt.nz/roadside/