Abstract
Abstract For almost 60 years milk marketing in the UK has been controlled by statutory milk marketing boards, which have often been regarded as a classic example of the use of discriminatory monopoly pricing exercised for the benefit of producers. This paper describes the development and characteristics of the system, questions the effectiveness of the boards, and considers the challenges to their authority which have recently emerged. These stem partly from opposition by producers and processors and from the latent antagonism of the European Commission. It is now anticipated that the boards will lose their statutory powers and possibility be replaced by unitary voluntary cooperatives. This paper considers the prospects for co‐operative success concluding that there are substantial difficulties still to be overcome.
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