Dairy farmers the United Nations looks to you...

Second World War Australian poster issued by Commonwealth Food Control, urging dairy farmers to increase milk production for the United (Allied) Nations. During the Second World War, Australia's Food Production and Control was managed by Commonwealth Food Control. Australia began in 1938 to prepare for food control in the event of war, not only to safeguard her economy, in which exports occupied an important place, to protect primary producers against market collapse, but also to ensure that supplies were moved quickly to the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom took the export surpluses of most of Australia's principal foods during this time. The Establishment of the Commonwealth Food Control in May 1943 under the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture developed the machinery necessary to cope with the possible invasion by Japan and to implement a thoroughgoing food policy.