. Agri-news. Agriculture. December 13, 1976 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE JAPANESE DAIRY INDUSTRY. n A Japanese dairy processing plant - one of many local units handling Hokkaido's milk. Conditions on Japan's Hokkaido dairy farms are so similar to those on a typical Alberta dairy farm that it takes something like the name on a tractor to remind one that one is not in Canada. This is how Cheshire, chairman of the Alberta-Hokkaido Dairy Exchange Committee, summed up his impressions of Japanese dairy farms after having visited about a dozen of them and half a dozen milk processing plants on the
. Agri-news. Agriculture. December 13, 1976 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE JAPANESE DAIRY INDUSTRY. n A Japanese dairy processing plant - one of many local units handling Hokkaido's milk. Conditions on Japan's Hokkaido dairy farms are so similar to those on a typical Alberta dairy farm that it takes something like the name on a tractor to remind one that one is not in Canada. This is how Cheshire, chairman of the Alberta-Hokkaido Dairy Exchange Committee, summed up his impressions of Japanese dairy farms after having visited about a dozen of them and half a dozen milk processing plants on the island of Hokkaido. He found the Japanese industrious and innovative,and as progressive as dairymen anywhere in the world. "There, as here, they use the latest technology to reduce drudgery and to increase productivity," he says. "Their dairy industry is expanding rapidly and their outlook for the future is ; The number of cows on the dairy farms visited by Mr. Cheshire varied from 30, on those trying to expand and increase their productivity, to several hundred on the larger farms. Many of the cows were producing more than 20,000 pounds of milk each per year. All the cows were Holsteins, and a surprisingly large number had been imported from Canada under the Japanese herd improvement p^J^ai - (cont'd) Phone (403) 427-2127 AGRICULTURE COMMUNICATIONS. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Communications Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Print Media Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. Publishing Branch. [Edmonton] : Communications Branch, Alberta Dept. of Agriculture
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