TOO MUCH CHEESE
Production Checked (Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, February 28. Britain’s farmhouse cheesemakers, who live by one of the countryside’s most ancient crafts, have been ordered to take a four weeks’ holiday. The Milk Marketing Board says they have been making too much cheese, and that if they don’t stop for a while there will be a glut on the market and a lowering of wholesale prices. The cheesemakers, after challenging the order have, according to agricultural correspondents, “reluctantly” agreed to accept it.
Their case was that they are being forced to stop production to ensure the sale of cheaper, factory-made cheeseWhile cheesemaking is stopped the board will buy the farmers’ milk less the premium he gets when it is made into cheese. Last year, milk for farmhouse cheese totalled 17% million gallons, against 14 million the previous year. Most of the increase was in Cheddar cheese, which rose from eight million to 11 million gallons.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29760, 1 March 1962, Page 11
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157TOO MUCH CHEESE Press, Volume CI, Issue 29760, 1 March 1962, Page 11
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