FARMERS REFUSE TO CO-OPERATE IN GRAIN-GROWING PLAN
BRISBANE, September I.—Nearly 200 delegates from 44 branches of the Queensland Grain Growers’ Association, at a meeting at Toowoomba, condemned the Peak Downs “Food for Britain” project as a Socialistic concern and refused to co-operate with it. They overwhelmingly defeated a proposal that farmers should grow sorghum grain at a time when the Queensland-British Overseas Food Corporation could not grow its own grain. The Peak Downs project, which Was started last season, aims at growing vast quantities of sorghum grain for feeding pigs in England. The first crop was stated to be notably successful. Grain growers at the meeting contended that machinery, rightly belonging to growers, had been taken for the Peak Downs project, which would also cost the farmers money through taxation. It was decided to ask the State Premier (Mr E. M. Hanlon) if the Queensland Government meant to decrease the farmers’ quota of machinery in order to supplement that of the Food Corporation for its increased area this season.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1949, Page 6
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