@article{Lloyd:8931,
      recid = {8931},
      author = {Lloyd, Alan G.},
      title = {Competition Between Table Margarine and Butter},
      journal = {Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics},
      address = {1956-03},
      number = {430-2016-31360},
      pages = {13},
      year = {1956},
      abstract = {In December, 1955, the New South Wales Government amended  the Dairy Industry Act, 1915-1955, to increase the quota of  margarine production in this State from 2,500 tons to 9,000  tons per annum. Following - on a large increase in the  Queensland quota some years earlier, this development  heightened the perennial fears of dairying industry  organisations that competition from margarine would have  very serious effects on the incomes of Australian dairymen.  However, speaking during the second reading of the bill  (November 23, 1955), the Minister for Agriculture and Food  Production gave as his opinion that "whatever effect  margarine has upon the dairy industry at present, the  tendency in the future will be for it to diminish ... ". It  is the purpose of this article to review recent  developments in the butter-margarine position and to  attempt to assess the effect of competition from margarine  on the Australian dairying- industry.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/8931},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.8931},
}