PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS
LAST GENERATION OF FARMERS If there was no improvement in the prices of farm products, the present would be the last generation of farmers, said Mr D. J. D, Archer, president of the Buffer Valley Farmers’ Dairy Company, when speaking of the motion passed at the annual meeting of the Westport branch of the Farmers’ Union asking for an increase in the price of buttcr-fat. In t)ie Buffer district. Mr Archer continued, the Buffer Dairy Company had distributed as much as £42,000 in one season, but at the present time, with prices so low and costs so high, the distribution was steadily decend, ing, and farming was becoming no longer a paying proposition. Inducements off (he farm were much greater than those on the land, and it could not be expected that the next generation of young people would continue to follow farming, unless radical changes took place and farmers were better paid for their labour and the long hours they were compelled to work.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23946, 13 May 1943, Page 4
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