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Excerpt from The Danish Poultry Meat Industry Denmark's participation in the ec's Common Agricultural Policy (cap) for poultry became effective February On that date, Denmark gained vastly improved access (and soon thereafter, free access) to the markets of West Germany, the world's largest poultry import market. Prior to enlargement of the bc, the Netherlands had held the favored external supply position with respect to Germany. This obvious benefit to Danish poultry producers carried with it necessary adjustments. Membership in EC required abandonment of Denmark's pre-existing Grain Plan and the Home Marketing Scheme, which respectively established the level of cost for feed, the largest expense in poultry production, and assured necessary subsidies for the production of poultry output beyond the offtake of the domestic market. In place of these schemes Danish producers are now subject to the EC cap for Cereals, and the EC Poultry cap with its export subsidy system. An already-evident increase in Danish home consumption of poultry meat is an additional new factor in the Danish poultry situation. It follows from the shifts to the EC system from a solely Danish system of poultry guidance which, through January 1973, taxed the domestic sale of poultry. This internal tax is now removed By the summer of 197 3, the expected consequence of this removal - a reduced domestic retail price contributed to the increased domestic offtake of poultry. This increased domestic use will compete with export availability so far as the distribution of supplies, and therefore competition in international markets, is concerned. The reaction in the next few years of-the Danish poultry industry to the potentially changed factors of production cost and product price is perhaps the most uncertain of the factors that will be critical to the establishment of a new equilibrium. In the summer of 1973, and for some months preceding, poultry meat production was judged to be less profitable to the farmer than production of either pork or milk. Additionally, for the short run the 1973 turmoil in the feedstuffs markets (both proteins and cereals) and in meat prices is likely to introduce more violent short term imbalances in the broiler industry than in other animal industries, because the broilers' short production cycle invites quicker production adjustments than can be achieved with swine or cattle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.