Aussie cheesemakers on a roll thanks to COVID-19 lockdown, expensive European imports

For artisan cheesemaker Donovan Jacka the good weather and coronavirus pandemic have laid the foundations for an oddly perfect season on his goat farm in Victoria's north-east.

The cheese will not last long, soon to be snapped up by customers who have quickly shifted their buying habits from in-person to the internet. "It is primarily because people are gifting cheese to each other, people who can't see each other who are overseas or interstate, or even now people in lockdown across Melbourne."

"Even post bushfires, people are more interested in the domestic product, our Australian cheesemakers, and they are just wanting to put their dollar into our own homegrown producers," she said. The lack of international flights coming into the country has pushed up the cost of imported cheese by three to four times, according to importers and mongers.

Take Roquefort from France, for example. It is the only soft cheese made from raw sheep milk permitted for import into Australia."This is something that we have to pass on. The importer is passing it on to me as a cheesemonger and I am trying to be reasonable, but then I also have to try to cover my costs as a small business owner," she said.

Artisan cheesemakers in Australia have traditionally struggled to compete on price against European ones because the dairy industry there is heavily subsidised.

Proof is in the pudding , so to speak, biggest problem cheese producers have in Australia is lack of promotion.

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