FARM REGISTRATION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 281, 25 October 1934, Page 5

FARM REGISTRATION

PROPOSAL FOR LICENSING. A system of registration of dairy farms supplying milk or cream to dairy factories and the licensing of the owners or occupiers of such farms is recommended by the Dairy Commission. “As a condition attaching to the grant of licenses, farmers would be required to bring their farm equipment up to standards laid down by the farm instructional service. This, however, should impose no undue hardship upon factory suppliers if effect is given to the recommendations in this report regarding the provision of finance on easy terms for effecting improvements in milking sheds and equipment. The standards laid down should, we consider, be the same as those laid down for farmers supplying city milk. This standard could not, of course, be attained by all factory suppliers at the outset, but we consider that where a supplier reaches the required standard his license should be endorsed to permit him to supply city milk. In our opinion there is no good reason for requiring a lower standard in the case of farmers supplying factories than is required in the case of farmers supplying city milk, and equally there is no good reason why any farmer who satisfies the highest standards demanded should be prevented from selling his milk for city consumption. “A fee would have to be charged to cover the administrative costs of the scheme, but it is suggested that this be a nominal one, not exceeding 5s per annum.”