Southland is one of our biggest milk-producing regions, and it is about to get even bigger - but with a different kind of milk.
The Government has backed New Zealand Functional Foods with a $6 million investment to build a carbon-neutral oat milk factory near Invercargill, which will be capable of producing 80 million litres of plant based milk a year.
New Zealand Functional Foods acting chief executive Roger Carruthers spoke to Corin Dann.
