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THE Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries has recently arranged for a review of the principles on which the development of artificial insemination centres in England and Wales should be planned and controlled. Discussions have taken place with the National Cattle Breeders' Association, the National Farmers' Union and the Milk Marketing Board. It is considered that artificial insemination centres should be controlled and developed as a national service on behalf of the livestock industry and that, with the exception of centres established for experimental purposes, licences for such centres should be granted in future only to organizations controlled and financed by producers, such as the Milk Marketing Board, farmers' co-operative societies and the cattle breed societies. It would be a condition of the licence that the centre would be available to all producers of cattle within the area of operation. A Central Advisory Committee is being appointed to advise the Minister upon the economic aspects of the control and development of centres and to consider applications for licences to set up such centres. The chairman and eight members are being appointed by the Minister, and four members each by the Milk Marketing Board, the National Farmers' Union, and collectively by the cattle breed societies.
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Artificial Insemination of Cattle. Nature 154, 12–13 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154012c0
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