CANADA'S WHEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 9

CANADA'S WHEAT

HIGH-PRESSURE EXPORT

Canada is exporting wheat and Hour to the United Kingdom and the European continent at the maximum export capacity of the nation's transport, elevator, and mill facilities, said Dr. C. F. Wilson, director of the wheat and grain division of the department of trade and commerce.

"When questioned regarding the British Foreign Secretary's remarks, made in the House of Commons in London, that more wheat must be supplied to Europe if disaster is to be avoided, Dr. Wilson said that Canada was shipping approximately 35,000,----000 bushels of wheat and 1,000 000 pounds of flour to the United Kingdom and Europe every month. Canada was also supplying wheat to New Zealand and India, he said. Because of a shortage of exportable wheat in Australia, Canada was doing her utmost to make up for this deficiency. The shortage in Europe was so great that they would be able to take up all the wheat that Australia or any other country could export. "At the .end of July, 1943, we had 600,000,000 bushels of wheat in storage," Hon. J. G. Gardiner Minister of Agriculture, said. "We will have worked this down to 100,000,0.00 bushels of carryover by July of next year." Mr. Gardiner pointed out, however, that there would be three crops between these two dates. The new crop, he said, was around 300,000,000 bushels of wheat, but as there was a shortage of barley this year it would be necessary to use more wheat for feeding cattle. In reply to Foreign Secretary Bevin's remark that he would like to see more maize from the Argentine sent to North America to be u£ed for feed so that the wheat that is fed to cattle could be exported to Europe, Mr. Gardiner said that a certain amount of wheat is mixed with barley or oats to strengthen cattle feed. In view of the figures he quoted, however, he pointed out that this quantity of wheat did not enter the export picture.