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In 1913 the Nova Scotia Government appointed a Superintendent of Dairying to encourage and to have general supervision of the dairy industry in Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia Dairy Commission was created in 1939 to assume the role of the Superintendent and also to regulate the industry from a health and safety point of view. For a brief period (1944-1945) to Commission's powers were redirected to the Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities. Increasingly in the 1960s the Commission assumed powers under the Natural Products Marketing Act to regulate the market for milk and milk products by controlling prices, the quantity of production and the entry of new producers into the marketplace. In 2000 an industry led organization, Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia, assumed much of the Commission’s mandate with the remainder of its mandate slipping back into the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture. Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia in turn grew out of the 1916 creation of the Nova Scotia Dairymen’s Association which later became known as the Milk Producers Association of Nova Scotia.
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