Prediction on wheat
I The Minister of Finance i(Mr Tizard) yesterday pre-i I dieted an upsurge in wheat 'production. This would come I about, he said, not because lof the price of wheat but be-, I cause of the fall in lamb and beef prices. “Our evidence shows that the traditional wheat grower is growing as much as before. It is the farmer who comes in one year and goes out the next, as the price changes, who alters the production,” he said. Mr Tizard, who was an-' Iswering a question at the; . Labour Party’s Sydenham by-I election campaign meeting[ last evening, said the Gov-' emment was only too happy to discuss a long-term arrangement with farmers.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33672, 23 October 1974, Page 18
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