The big cheese of Lichfield

Published: Aug. 30, 2011, 5:01 a.m.

The southern hemisphere's biggest cheese factory is in the small Waikato town of Lichfield. Owned by the Fonterra dairy co-operative - New Zealand's largest company, responsible for a third of the world's international dairy trade - the Lichfield factory is the much larger descendant of the many small dairy factories that once dotted the New Zealand countryside.