HC Deb 22 July 1943 vol 391 cc1076-7
55. Mr. Price

asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the withholding of acreage payment for a crop of wheat or rye which has been heavily patched with barley will create serious anomalies in that the payment will be made if a crop of winter-sown wheat or rye has been a total failure, through no fault of the farmer's, and the land has been re-ploughed and re-sown; and whether he is prepared to modify this condition of the scheme?

Mr. Hudson

Yes, Sir. I have considered this point, in conjunction with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland, and we have decided that crops of wheat and rye that have partially failed and have been heavily patched with barley may be eligible for acreage payment on the same terms as apply to other patched crops.