BRITISH MILK OUTPUT

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28825, 20 February 1959, Page 16

BRITISH MILK OUTPUT

150,000,000 Gallon Drop Forecast

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. February 10. Mr W. R. Trehane, chairman of the Milk Marketing Board of England and Wales, arrived in Auckland last night Wfth heartening news for New Zealand dairymen. Surplus milk production in Britain during the year starting in April was likely to be down by 150,000,000 gallons, he said. This meant that less surplus milk would be available for cheesemaking, anti butter production Would be cut substantially. Mr Trehane is visiting New Zealand for talks on marketing and manufacturing with the New Zealand Dairy Board. His organisation, he explained, was constituted on much the same lines as the Dairy Board and represented the interests of milk producers in England and Wales. His visit was an 1 outcome of that made by the New - Zealand dairy. industry delegation to Britain in November, The estimated drop in British milk production, said Mr Trehane, was a result mainly ot there being fewer cows. This was probably because of the twin factors of the increasing attractiveness of crossbred beef production and the lower returns for milk. In recent months as much as 40 per cent, of all artificial inseminations of dairy cows had been from beef bulls. This, he said, was approaching the danger point when not enough dairy heifers were being bred to maintain the national dairy herd.

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