WHEAT PRODUCTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 December 1932, Page 7

WHEAT PRODUCTION

INTERNATIONAL CONTROL TO REDUCE ACREAGE MOVEMENT GAINING" STRENGTH (United Pres* Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) HURON (South Dakota), 13th Dec. The international control of wheat production to reduce the world surplus and thereby stabilise the price was forecast on Tuesday as a consequence of the proposed enactment bv Congress of a- voluntary domestic allotment plan. Mr W. R. Ronald, one of the sponsors, said it was not only possible, hut probable. “Inquiries received indicate a growing interest in the plan by Canadians and by Australian observers in the United States. Britain adbpted the plan in principle in the Wheat Act. of May last, and being importers applied the plan to the stimulation of production, not using the production limitation feature as proposed by the United' States. Adoption by Congress of this plan with control through the limitatiolu of the acreage of the individual farmer, would set forth means by which Can-, ada, Australia, ihe United States and Argentina could effectively carry out an agreement for the curtailment of production to a near balance with the demand, and do away with the unsale-; able surplus. This takes no account-of Russia, whose troubles keep her out of the market for a time.”

WASHINGTON, 14th December. .. Mr Marvin Jones, chairman- of the House Agricultural Committee, was noti. fiecl on Tuesday night that the executives of the farm leaders’ conference had agreed on simplifications of the Voluntary Domestic Allotment Bill, and would'.present them to his committee-on Wednesday. The agreement was effected, when an attempt was made in general conference to make the plan compulsory, and certain groups threatened non-., participation. ' ' CALGARY (Alberta), 13th Dec. . Support for the world wheat pool isapparently gaining in strength, international pool supporters said on Tuesday night, commenting on Mr Ronald’s address at Huron. At the recent-Alberta wheat pool meeting many delegates ad-.: vocated an international wheat board: The Government has been requested to. convene a conference of wheat exporting countries to deal With the present marketing situation. :: : "