WEIGHT INCREASED
TOP-BACONERS 180LBS ADVICE TO FARMERS Lntorvicwcd by a representative of the Beacon on this development. Air W. A. Phillips, Chairman of Directors of the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Pig Marketing Association, Limited, stated in.tor alia: —■ "Owing to the reversion to butterfat from cheese and the consequent. substantial increased demand for store, pigs and brood sows, the Government sought to ease the position for producers, by reverting for the current season to a top weight for bnconers of 1801bs hooks weight. Two years ago when this* was the practice, producers showed a strong tendency to aim at this top Aveight in the out-turn of their baconers, and as a result produced a substantial quantity of oA'crweights on which they were inevitably heavily penalised. During that season such penalties aggregated the huge loss of £75,000 to the industry. "In the present circumstances it is therefore desirable to caution producers against a repetition of this loss. In which I lie only practical corrective is to aim at a iop weight of HiO!bs and thus ensure a safe margin of error in the Aveight outturn of their baconers.. "Producers' future bacon markets/' concludes Air Phillips, "will be best safeguarded by the future organisation of production to turn off more pigs of moderate Aveight rather than fewer pigs of higher Aveights."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 13, 9 October 1942, Page 5
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217WEIGHT INCREASED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 13, 9 October 1942, Page 5
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