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Author(s) -
HILLMAN H. C.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
international journal of dairy technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1471-0307
pISSN - 1364-727X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0307.1959.tb00018.x
Subject(s) - production (economics) , quality (philosophy) , product (mathematics) , factory (object oriented programming) , agricultural science , agricultural economics , business , consumption (sociology) , economics , marketing , environmental science , mathematics , microeconomics , computer science , social science , philosophy , geometry , epistemology , sociology , programming language
Summary Had this review been presented eight months ago it might have been suggested that the future of butter manufacture was bright. The current curtailment of milk, however, has again underlined the precarious nature of milk supplies for butter production. This basic uncertainty underlies all considerations of plant replacement and development. At the same time, the necessity for rapid adjustment of stocks to maintain a specialized consumer demand, which is only a fraction of the total market for butter, imposes a conservative approach to any innovation which might affect keeping quality. If these factors have restrained us and prevented the adoption of ‘mass‐production’ methods, which may be more applicable to steady programmes, we are at least producing a product still recognizable as traditional butter and to the liking of our customers. However on the score of mass production, we can take note that one factory in the United Kingdom produced more than 100 tons in one day, which appears to stand as an unchallenged record. If there has been a strong economic bias in this paper, rather than a technological one, it is because the economic shadow has such a pronounced effect in the technological field.