Rothamsted experimental station

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 270 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000562406

✦ Synopsis

and milk prochict niniiufncturcrs hiivc hnd so litd le t o sny nbout the report, for its rccoiiimcndritiotis must affect their futrire opcriitioiis wry consicleriibly.

And mennwhilc, to return to the opcning thcme of this article, tlic Government is frnming its policy for the industry-n policy which must eni1)r:tcc thc control or otherwise, qu;Iiititntively, of iiiilk products imported froni foreign countries anti Iloininions, tlint must clcfinc the import duties which slinll require to be paid on tlicsc products, tltiit mist trike full account of consumers' interests, and yet not lcnvc the home producer in :I position in which he cnnnot obtain a fair rcwiird for his lnbours in producing milk, nn ngriculturnl product to the production of which this England is so w l l suited. It is probnblc, too, t h n t in framing its policy the Government is giving nttention to the interests of public henlth, to the erndieation of tubcrculosis nnd other discnses, t o thc possible estcnsion of pnstcurization, nnd the more rigid control of ptistcurizing plnnt. We shnll hear much more of inilk during thc next t\vclvc months. The Xnister of Agriculture hns no cnsy task in reconciling the somcti~iics conflicting interests of milk producers, milk distributors, milk consuincrs, the mnnufncturers of milk products in this country and those rnnnufncturcrs in the Dominions nnd foreign countries who depcnd upon England ns thc inarkct for their agricultural produce so as to ennble them to buy Englnnd's industrial products.