Originally Posted by
NT001
As has been frequently mentioned on this thread, A2 milk is available in most Countdown supermarkets although in some stores you do have to look carefully to find it, and sometimes have to ask the shelf-stackers to go out to the storeroom and find some. They're obviously not exactly pushing sales. A few non-Countdown stores (New World, Pak'N'Save and health food stores) also stock it.
That said, the volume being sold is pretty small. According to the boss of Fresha Valley, the monopoly supplier of A2 milk in NZ, its supplies come from a single herd of 300 Friesians. As I understand it the average dairy cow produces about 11 litres a day, which means this herd would produce maybe 3,500 litres a day - not much to go around a whole country. Of course far more A2 milk than that is being produced by the herds contracted to A2MC-Synlait in Canterbury, but that's all earmarked for manufacturing into infant formula, not for local distribution as milk. A2MC keeps saying vaguely that it wants to tackle the NZ supply issue which is a legacy contractual problem, but frankly the NZ market is not its priority at the moment.