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Summary Replies were received from 63 of 123 cooperatives surveyed. The smallest cooperatives were located in the Western region and the largest in the North Atlantic region. There was no relationship between the size of the organization and the number of fieldmen employed per 100 members or per million pounds of milk produced. Of the 57 cooperatives employing fieldmen, 45 reported that 50% or more of their fieldmen's time was devoted to raw milk quality problems. Opinion was divided about equally as to whether raw milk quality problems should be the responsibility of the cooperative, or jointly of the plant, the cooperative, and the regulatory agency. A great diversity was found in the frequency and method of evaluating raw milk quality by the cooperatives. Eighteen basic types of tests were used, with tests for inhibitors and total bacteria counts being the most popular. |
