§ Mr. Priorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimates he has received of the acreage of winter wheat drilled this autumn.
Mr. VaneI should not like to give any figure until after the results of the December agricultural census for England and Wales are known. A large acreage of winter wheat has been sown, and if there is no set back to spring sowings, the total United Kingdom wheat acreage should certainly exceed last year's rather low total, and may well exceed the more normal total of some 2 million acres.