Dairy Produce Graded for Export

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 95, Issue 3, 16 September 1957, Page 288

Dairy Produce Graded for Export

Cheese in store at 30 June 1957 was 18,212 tons If these figures are converted into butterfat equivalent, there is a decrease of 4.318 per cent, in butterfat graded for the 11 months as compared with the corresponding period of the preceding season. The above figures refer only to butter and cheese graded for export, and owing to diversions which may take place from time to time they are not necessarily a true indication of production trends.

Period ■ Creamery (tons) Whey (tons) Total (tons) Percentage inc. or dec. June 957 .. 332 11 343 —- . June 1956 526 19 545 — Increase or decrease — 194 —8 —202 —37.064 11 months ended 30/6/57 151,989 2,904 154,893 __ II months ended 30/6/56 .. 159,881 2,955 162,836 — Increase or decrease .. . . —7,892 —51 —7,943 —4.878

THE following figures showing Quantities of dairy produce graded for export during June 1957 A and for the 11 months ended 30 June 1957 with comparative figures for the same month and 11 months of 1955-56 have been compiled by the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture from figures supplied by divisional officers at the various grading ports:— , s BUTTER

Butter in store at 30 June 1957 was 19,403 tons Note: in the 3 months January-March 3990 tons of ice cream base were graded for export st Auckland, but not included in butterfat figures. , CHEESE

Period White (tons) Coloured (tons) Total (tons) Percentage inc. or dec. June I957 .. 947 3 950 — June 1956 . . .. .. .. 1,478 1 —- 1,478 — Increase or decrease .. .. —531 +3 —528 —35.724 II months ended 30/6/57 79,786 10,357 90,143 , — ... ., 11 months ended 30/6/56 79,396 12,702 ' ?' 92,098 Increase or decrease .. 390 —2,345 — 1,955 —2.123