Dairy Policy for Australia

Schapper, Henry P.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8489.1961.tb00281.x

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“…Production distortions from home consumption pricing and other features of price stabilisation schemes were to become a major focus of criticism by agricultural economists from the 1950s onward, perhaps best exemplified by a joint submission made by a nation‐wide group of seven agricultural economists to the 1959/60 Dairy Industry Committee of Enquiry which critiqued that industry's then price equalisation arrangements (Candler et al ., 1960 12 ). However, this was initially undertaken largely by way of partial equilibrium criteria about individual industries within their institutional marketing arrangements with little consideration of economy‐wide inter‐sectoral consequences (see, e.g., Schapper, 1961, and Longworth, 1967). It was not until the 1980s that cost distribution and resource allocation issues were taken up again within an economy‐wide analytical framework.…”

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Early Analytical Agricultural Economics in Australia

Mauldon¹

2020

Aust Econ Hist Rev

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Analysis of home consumption pricing by Giblin and Copland in the 1930s preceded the development of an identifiable Australian agricultural economics profession. They demonstrated that costs of increasing domestic prices of agricultural products above export levels would be borne largely by lightly assisted exporters and hinder their development. This work was taken up later within a framework of computable general equilibrium modelling. Now largely of historical interest, their work sheds light on likely consequences of some past policy debates ‑ of protection all round in the 1920s and tariff compensation in the 1970s.

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Early Analytical Agricultural Economics in Australia

Mauldon¹

2020

Aust Econ Hist Rev

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“…It would seem apparent, that, given the opportunity, dairy farmers would actively seek access to city milk markets, rather than sell at the much lower, equalized, manufacturing price. Admittedly, there are greater costs associated with liquid milk marketing (especially in winter) 4 but 'there is evidence to suggest that these costs are covered to an excessive degree and that farmers who supply this market are in a privileged economic position'. [Schapper 4,p.…”

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No Feeling for “Udders”?: A Critical Note on the Report of the A.C.T. Milk Authority*

Albon

1976

Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics

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Fluid milk marketing in Australia is generally associated with an administered system where free market forces are unable to operate due to public intervention. Such interference creates a situation where, as Throsby [6, p. 243] puts it, 'returns to the fluid milk sector are maintained by monopoly pricing and supply control measures which vary from State to State'. The Australian Capital Territory (A.C.T.) is, similarly, not immune to the effects of producer protection. Indeed, it is contended that the implementation of the proposals contained in the A.C.T. Milk Authority Report of March 1974 [3] would have the effect of institutionalizing the power of the dairy industry to act in a manner opposed to the interests of A.C.T. consumers. The basic reason why the interests of consumers are so often put second to those of suppliers is summed up by J.N. Lewis [2, p. 283]: 'A determined close‐knit group with strong interests in a particular policy issue can often impose its desires upon an apathetic majority whose interests are weak and diffused'. It is proposed to develop this theme by looking at the history of milk supply in the A.C.T. as a background to an examination of the Report, an appraisal of its contents, the advocacy of an alternative (competitive) solution and an estimation of costs, to consumers, of producer protection.

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Dairy Policy for Australia

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Early Analytical Agricultural Economics in Australia

Early Analytical Agricultural Economics in Australia

No Feeling for “Udders”?: A Critical Note on the Report of the A.C.T. Milk Authority*

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