FAT LAMB MARKET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19825, 30 December 1938, Page 14

FAT LAMB MARKET

ARGENTINE COMPETITION THREAT TO NEW ZEALAND The likelihood of the Argentine toeing a serious competitor with New Zealand on the British fat lamb market is visualised by Dr. C. P. McMeekan, of the staff of the Massey Agricultural 'College, who returned last week after an absence of two and ahalf years abroad. He said, when interviewed, that he did not want togo into details except to say that the Argentine could and would produce lambs that would compete successfully with New Zealand.

Dr. McMeekin spent two and a-haif months, in the Argentine, going there at the request of the Argentine Social Rural and the Argentine co-operative meat producers with a view to suggesting to the farmers of the country how improvements could be made in quality.

“The position roughly is that until the imposition toy Britain of a quota on Argentine toeef the country was not very interested in the fat lamb trade,’ said Dr. McMeekan. “But with beef production curtailed they are turning to other avenues. The Argentine has been allotted a quota of 4.000,000 fat lambs a year and they are endeavouring to fill it with a produce that is equally as good as New Zealand turns out.”