Day is yet to break when the Chesworth family start their day. Nine hundred Holstein milking cows – ghostly in the mottled pre-dawn light – make their way into the milking parlour, eager for their breakfast of grain. A frost blankets the undulating ground of the family’s 971-hectare property, Glen Isla, 17 kilometres west of Dubbo on the Macquarie River. Yet inside, it’s warm, steam rising from the herd’s flanks.
If love could be bottled, it’s what you’d taste in the milk from these cows. Here at the Chesworth family’s Little Big Dairy Co, personal values have seeped into every aspect of the business. It’s
