BRITISH MEAT MARKET
Sir, —From a farmer's point of view the passage quoted in the British levy plan printed in Saturday's Herald, viz:. "It is important here 'to observe that the present difficulties of the United Kingdom livestock industry are not of its own creation," makes strange reading. In coming to the decision presented to us, have the powers that be taken into consideration the agreement now in force with Denmark ? A New Zealand farmer who spent four years in Russia informed me that the Russians grow wheat on a community plan. When the crop is abundant a portion is harvested, the balance is fed off with pigs gathered on the same plan. When the pigs are ready to market the Danish buyers operate, and the result is, the British housewife buys at a premium, Danish bacon and pig products bred and fed in Russia. The per capita' trade of New Zealand and that of Russia bear no comparison, yet the plan presented to us gives the foreign countries every advantage over us. W 7 . P. Seaton.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22058, 14 March 1935, Page 15
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177BRITISH MEAT MARKET New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22058, 14 March 1935, Page 15
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