HC Deb 27 April 1964 vol 694 cc10-1W
Mr. Thorpe

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will make available details of costs increases in dairy farming between 1955–56 and the current year.

Mr. Soames

Wage rates, rent levels and the cost of other goods and services used in dairying have increased since 1955–56, though prices of concentrated feedingstuffs have declined somewhat. The efficiency of milk production has, however, improved during this period and the average cost per gallon, as shown by samples of about 500 herds in the National Investigation into the Economics of Milk Production in England and Wales, declined from an average of 29.0d. per gallon in the two years 1955–56 to 1956–57 to an average of 27.8d. per gallon in the two years 1960–61 and 1961–62, the latest period for which figures are available.

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