New Brunswick Milk Producers Association
- Collectivité
- Formed in 1947, dissolved sometime after 1974
The New Brunswick Milk Producers Association was formed on 15 October 1947 after the milk producers of New Brunswick joined forces in a price disagreement with the Dairy Producers Commission. The association's primary objective was to improve the dairy farming industry in the province in general and the position of New Brunswick dairy farmers in particular. In 1950 the association was incorporated and, in the same year, it became an affiliate of both the Dairy Farmers of Canada and the Federation of Agriculture.
By 1953 the N.B. Milk Producers had entered into an agreement with the Cream Producers Marketing Board with respect to joint advertising. Three years later a new quota system had been implemented, and by 1974 a marketing board had been established to run a new pool system which assisted with marketing. Internal pressures, however, forced the association to dissolve in the mid-1970s. Later the New Brunswick Milk Marketing Board was organized to carry on some of the work undertaken by the New Brunswick Milk Producers Association. George B. Whalen (1904-1978) was secretary-manager of the association from 1959 until its dissolution.