A visit was also made this month to the sheep farm of the BURUAGA cheese factory at Etxabarri-Ibiña. The main livestock farm has some 800 Assaf sheep and is owned by Javier Aizpeolea. In conjunction with other latxa sheep farms in the area, milk is provided to the cheese factory for the manufacture of Idiazabal, […]
In March, a visit was made to the SIERRA DE LARA cheese factory in Salas de los Infantes (Burgos), owned and run by the Casanueva family. They manufacture cheese from raw sheep’s milk and have been feeding their 500 sheep with the whey for 20 years. In this case, whey pasteurisation is carried out by […]
Staff from the Neiker-Tecnalia and AZTI-Tecnalia technology centres visited livestock farms which produce their own cheeses and use the milk whey generated to feed their own animals. During these visits, information has been collected relating to the quantity of the whey generated, the number of animals fed, ways of managing the whey, the nature of […]
Among the activities of the establishment of the Collaboration Network with other projects, on March 5 have held a meeting with ACLIMA (Association of Environmental Industries of Euskadi) at its headquarters in Bilbao, to exchange information on the VALORLACT project and COOLSWEEP project (FP7) in which participates ACLIMA. At this meeting we have studied the […]
