BUTTERFAT FOR CHEESE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3771, 19 June 1936, Page 11

BUTTERFAT FOR CHEESE

PAYMENT OF nd PER POUND OVER BUTTER. A margin of lid per lb butterfat in favour of cheese over butter is to be fixed under the Government’s guaranteed price plan for dairy products for the 1936-37 season, according to an announcement made by the acting Director of Marketing, Mr. G. A. Duncan. In making payments to dairy factories for the coming season, Mr. Duncan said, the Marketing Department woud so arrange payments that the average price to be paid for cheese would be fixed at such a figure as would yield a margin of lid per lb for butterfat processed into cheese above the average price of butterfat processed into butter. Mr. Duncan stated that the Government had considered the representations made to it in regard to the fixation of the butterfat margin of lid per lb for cheese manufacture, and had agreed that it was desirable that in order to stabilise the relative production quantities of butter and cheese this margin should be recognised. It was felt that the announcement would reassure suppliers to cheese factories who might have contemplated transferring their supplies for next season to butter factories.