§ Sir G. Jeffreysasked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the difficulty of obtaining threshing tackle and to avoid unfairness, he will not vary the price of marketed British wheat but will allow the maximum price to stand until about June?
Mr. HudsonIt is necessary that the maximum possible quantity of homegrown wheat should be threshed and sold by the end of March, and that the whole crop should be threshed by the end of May in England and Wales and by the end of June in Scotland. I am therefore unable to agree that the incentive to market wheat by the end of March should be diminished. County War Agricultural Executive Committees have been instructed to give priority in the use of threshing tackle to growers of wheat, and it is hoped that all growers will have212W an opportunity to thresh a substantial part of their remaining stocks of wheat by the end of March.