RESTRICTING WHEAT MARKETING.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 11

RESTRICTING WHEAT MARKETING.

CONTROL OVER EXPORTS FAVOURED. OPINION OF CANADIAN POOLS. WINNIPEG, July 12. A wheat export plan, based on international agreement, with the establishment of national marketing boards in each of the principal exporting countries, is favoured by the wheat pools of the western provinces. Previously the pools had favoured acreage reduction schemes. Announcing their stand for the quota plan Mr George Robertson, secretary of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, said: — "It would appear that a bushel rather than an acreage basis gives the best hope of success, bringing about a better relationship between wheat production and consumption. Control over exports by the principal wheat exporting countries, through a quota plan, would tend to relieve the pressure on world markets, and prevent one country dumping wheat against the others. Under an international plan the individual grower would be under no restrictions as to acreage and production, but the maximum amount he could market from any given crop would be fixed. The way he treated the remainder would be entirely in his own hands." Mr Robertson believed that legislation enacted to provide for straight acreage reduction would be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to enforce.