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Impact of the Common Market on the Dairy Industry¹

Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana

ABSTRACT

I wish to thank you very much for inviting me to participate in this 58th Annual Meeting. I particularly appreciate the fact that your Association devotes its first session to economic matters.

During the life of this Association the dairy industry has been completely transformed. The family cow gave way to the specialized dairy enterprise. Bovine tuberculosis was whipped and brucellosis was almost eradicated. Pasteurization became standard. The housewife came to consider milk to be the safest as well as the most nutritious human food. Artificial insemination multiplied the influence of better animals. Milk production per cow doubled. The science of animal nutrition advanced rapidly. Ice cream and nonfat dry milk became major products. The cow, long the foster mother of the human race, became ever more productive and ever more useful. For this, you dairy scientists deserve the thanks of a grateful public.

While we economists have also been active in the dairy fiield, I must say in all candor that we have not been able to bring about the institutional modifications needed fully to accommodate and implement the technical changes you have produced.

¹ Presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, Purdue University, June, 1963.