@article{Brookens:337167,
      recid = {337167},
      author = {Brookens, P. F.},
      title = {The Competitive Position of the Dairy Industry of New  Zealand},
      address = {1931-06},
      number = {1485-2023-931},
      series = {Report F. S. 54},
      pages = {56},
      year = {1931},
      note = {Contents: Introduction.  General Description --  Agricultural resources and alternative farm enterprises --  Agriculture in relation to industry -- Production and  utilization of milk --Consumption as affecting exportable  surplus -- Improvement of resources and technique --  Herd-testing and its far-reaching effect upon dairying --  Economy in the use of labor -- Utilization of by-products  -- Marketing organization -- The New Zealand surplus as  affecting the United States -- Statistical summary},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the Introduction:  New Zealand is  predominantly a pastoral country uniquely adapted to  dairying, in contrast with Danish dairying, which is  largely dependent upon cultivated feed crops, both  home-grown and imported.  New Zealand dairy production is  maintained primarily on permanent pasture lands with  relatively slight dependence upon supplementary forage,  ensilage, and root crops.  Originally New Zealand was given  over to the grazing of sheep and cattle with dairying  carried on in a more or less desultory way as a relatively  unimportant side-line, but now a dairy industry is  maintained which, in value of output and export, is  approaching first place among the country’s agricultural  enterprises.  The exploitation of the agricultural  resources of New Zealand is shifting from extensive  operations to increased production by more intensive  methods.  This is particularly true of dairying.  More  attention is now being directed by New Zealand dairy  leaders to increasing the carrying capacity of established  pasture lands by means of top-dressing and generally better  care, increasing the yield per cow by means of cow-testing  and culling, supplementary feeding and other methods of  lengthening the lactation period, and care in selecting  calves for replacing cows in the milking herds.  Greater  economy in the utilization of by-products such as skin or  buttermilk through growing of calves and pigs is also being  stressed, as well as general improvement in quality of  product and methods of marketing.  Effort is being exerted  through the concerted action of New Zealand dairy interests  to secure the most profitable disposition of their growing  surplus, especially of butter, by developing new markets  alternative to Great Britain, the long-established main  outlet.  Whatever form New Zealand competition may take in  the markets of the United States, the surplus from that  source may be expected to continue to affect our markets  directly or indirectly.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/337167},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.337167},
}