Domestic Matters for Meat, Dairy and Agriculture in the 1950s and 1960s

David Hall ()

Chapter Chapter 9 in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy in New Zealand, 2021, pp 125-139 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter analyses meat and dairy farming in the 1950s and 1960s. Federated Farmers was shocked when the Government did not ask the Federation’s consent to use surpluses built up from finance stabilisation policies during wartime. Farmers pressed for full dairy farming costs to be recognised, but the Government did not want to continue linking its ‘guaranteed price’ for dairy produce with farm costs. Prices paid to farmers would depend largely on overseas realisations for their produce. The 1960s were marked for the dairy industry by many attempts by Federated Farmers to bring to the attention of Government the relatively low incomes of dairyfarmers and to seek relief. Farmers encouraged also schemes to eradicate bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis and leptospirosis.

Keywords: Meat farming; Dairy farming; Guaranteed Price; Eradication of animal diseases (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86300-5_9

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