DAIRY POOLS IN CANADA

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1689, 21 November 1925, Page 2

DAIRY POOLS IN CANADA

COPYING THE DANISH MARKETING

SYSTEM.

There is a widespread movement on foot in Canada just now favouring the formation of butter and cheese pools, similar to the organisations so highly developed in 'Denmark. The size of these pools is 'between two and three thousand tons of butter-fat, which would equal the output of two or three fair-sized New Zealand factories. One such pool has just been established in'the province of Alberta, where sufficient dairy farmers have signed contracts, binding themselves to sell their milk and cream through the dairy pool during the next five years, to ensure the operation of the pool to commence as soon as the organisation is completed. The small size and capacity of the average Canadian dairy factory are direct hindrances to the economic handling and marketing of their products, and the idea of a number of factories combining and pooling their outputs is taken from the Danish system, where the method has proved very profitable to the producers. It is evident that such a marketing association, handling between 2000 and 3000 tons of ibutter, can make better terms, and obtain better prices, than the small individual factory manufacturing, say, 100 tons. There are many factories of this size—and even less — in Canada.

A co-operative movement on these lines would no doubt prove a great benefit to the industry in New Zealand. The basis of these pools is, of couiise, entirely voluntary, and the period of the contract is specifically limited. They are not allowed to become too big to be unwieldy, and their soundness and true co-operative value have been fully 'proved over a number of years.