§ Mr. Colin Shepherdasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many tonnes each of feed wheat and feed barley from the 1982 crop have been sold into intervention in the United Kingdom; and at what prices.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithA total of 10,804 tonnes of feed wheat and 1,184,276 tonnes of barley have been accepted into intervention in the United Kingdom between 1 August 1982 and 25 March 1983.
The basic intervention price for feed grains for the 1982–83 season is £110£90 a tonne. It is subject to increases of £1£51 a tonne for each month since August, and small adjustments for deviations from a standard quality.
The precise prices paid for the quantities of grain which have been bought in have therefore depended on the month of delivery and the quality of grain delivered.
§ Mr. Colin Shepherdasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many tonnes of feed wheat and feed barley are expected to be held in intervention stock in the United Kingdom on 31 March.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithUnsold stocks of feed wheat and barley held in intervention in the United Kingdom on 31 March 1983 are provisionally reckoned at 1,543 and 674,879 tonnes respectively.
§ Mr. Colin Shepherdasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is his estimate of the total consumption each of feed wheat, feed barley and feed maize for each of the pig sector, poultry sector and the beef sector of the United Kingdom's agricultural industry for the year which will end in June 1983.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithThe Ministry does not make such estimates for individual animal sectors. Estimates of individual cereal use for animal feed as a whole were published by the Home Grown Cereals Authority on 24 March 1983 and were 3 million, 5 million and 600,000 tonnes for wheat, barley and maize respectively. These figures relate to the 12-month period ending July 1983.
§ Mr. Colin Shepherdasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is his estimate of the total yield from the United Kingdom from the 1982 crop of (a) feed wheat, (b) feed barley and (c) feed maize.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithIt is not possible to estimate the total quantities of United Kingdom-grown wheat and barley that are produced for any particular purpose because part of the crop is exported and its end use is not known.
Grain maize is not produced on any significant scale within the United Kingdom.