HC Deb 09 July 1940 vol 362 c1099W
Brigadier-General Clifton Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Air whether, before obstacles are placed by air defence orders in standing wheat and oat crops, he will issue an order that 24 hours' notice be given to the owner or farmer affected to enable him to cut rides in his corn fields and thereby save some of the crop from damage?

Sir A. Sinclair

In so far as this work is carried out by the Royal Air Force, instructions have been issued that crops and plough are not to be disturbed and that contact is to be made with the local member of the War Agricultural Executive Committee with a view to minimising interference with food supply.