FARMING IN BRITAIN
SECURITY FOR YEARS AHEAD
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 11. The Minister of Agriculture, Mr, Hudson, in a speech, said that for the first time for generations agricultural workers could look forward to the future with reasonable confidence, and the landowners, farmers, and workers could plan ahead with reasonable security. It was reasonable to promise that during the war the existing system of fixed prices should be maintained, and that the year after the war —a critical year for agriculture—would not see the end of control. The Government was taking energetic measures, he said, to make available additional supplies of the fertilisers required to increase production from the available land and to bring grassland and derelict land into full production. To oil^et the ct^adily it>rr easingl demands on the fighting services,* Mr. Hudson urged farmers to train additional labour, most of which must be female. He paid a tribute to the magnificent work of the women's land army.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1940, Page 12
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