MARKETING DAIRY PRODUCE.
A POOL SUGGESTED. Writes Mr. Jacob Marx to our Hawera contemporary:—ln the last cabled prices for butter we find Danish some 50s per cwt. ahead of first grade New Zealand. A similar disparity has obtained for some months past. Our present maximum price of 130 s will not pay out lid per lb to the producer for but-ter-fat. With the* old pre-war difference between Danish and New Zealand, some 12s to los per cwt. below Danish, we could pay out at least from 3d to 4d per lb more for 'butter-fat. Why is this? Simply because the Danes market their produce properly, and unless New Zealanders bestir themselves, with a continuance of present conditions and the high cost of production, half our dairy farmers will be down and out. The remedy, in my opinion, is that we should work on similar lines to the New Zealand meat producers, and pool our dairy produce, both butter and cheese. It would be a simpler business than meat, as the-qualities and grades are only a fraction of the number as compared to meat. I would like to have seen the N.D.A. executive move in this matter, but somehow they appear to be wedded to marketing through the Co-operative Wholesale Society of Great Britain. What, at most, can New Zealand expect from the C.W.S.? They are out to get as cheap food for their millions of shareholders as they possibly can. While they can purchase New Zealand butter at 40s to 50s per cwt. less than Danish they are too good business men not to take an almost equally’ good article at the lower price. We cannot expect t<f get anything like pre-war prices, hut, seeing the price of Danish butter, there seems no reason why we should not realise a price that, will pay 14d to Ind for butter-fat. A living can be made at this with land at a reasonable price, but not at from lOd and lid. T trust this matter will be taken up in earnest. The dairy people are up against it quite as much as .the meat producers, and if the dairy producers organise on similar lines I do' not doubt like assistance will be afforded by our Premier and his Government.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1922, Page 7
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377MARKETING DAIRY PRODUCE. Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1922, Page 7
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