§ The following changes in crop prices operate with the 1951 harvest:
§ Potatoes: The acreage payment will be discontinued. Sound and marketable potatoes sold on or after 1st August, 1951, will receive an average price increase of 39s. 0d. per ton.
§ Sugar-beet: No change.
§ Wheat: The existing price will continue, but may, after consultation with the Farmers' Unions, operate as a guaranteed minimum price.
§ Barley: (i) There will be no maximum price for malting barley.
§ (ii) The current feeding barley fixed price of 21s. 6d. per cwt. will be a minimum price. The application of a seasonal range to this minimum is under consideration.
§ Oats: There will be no maximum price for milling oats.
§ Rye: The acreage payment will be discontinued and a partial compensatory adjustment in the price of rye offered for sale for human consumption will be discussed. The guaranteed minimum price for rye will be reduced to 21s. 6d. per cwt.