However, most is not a lot. Although there are a number of herds dotted around the country virtually all their milk is sold under contract for cheese making. Buffalo dairying attracts no support from Defra or any other government body, and, relative to their size, buffalo produce very little milk, so small milking farms find it almost impossible to make money. As result most sell their milk for cheese making - or have sold their herd to the one large farm that is sufficiently well funded to be able to milk and sell the milk at a profit.
This is Laverstoke Park, the organic mixed farm in Hampshire owned by the racing driver Jody Scheckter and his wife. Laverstoke Park now has a herd of over 300 buffalo - along with Jersey, native Angus and traditional Hereford cows; Hebridean, Lleyns, and polled Dorset sheep; saddleback and middle white pigs.