§ 55. Mr. J. E. B. Hillasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what arrangements he is making for crops of wheat and rye which could not be harvested owing to weather conditions to be eligible for cereal deficiency payments.
§ Mr. John MackieWeather is one of the risks the farming industry normally has to carry and I am afraid we could not alter the arrangement whereby deficiency payments on wheat and rye are made only on millable grain sold off the farm.
§ 59. Sir D. Rentonasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he is now in a position to announce what help will be given to those farmers who have lost all or almost all of 274W their crops this season through floods or saturation by rain water.
§ Mr. John MackieI have nothing to add to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Westmorland (Mr. Jopling) on 16th October.—[Vol. 770, c. 356.]