WHEAT QUOTA PLAN

Southland Times, Issue 22067, 14 July 1933, Page 7

WHEAT QUOTA PLAN

SUPPORT IN CANADA. NATIONAL MARKETING BOARDS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Winnipeg, July 12. A wheat export plan, based on an international agreement with the establishment of national marketing boards in each of the principal exporting countries, is favoured by the wheat pools of the Western Provinces. Previously the pools favoured acreage reduction schemes. In announcing their stand for the quota plan. Mr George Robertson, secretary of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, said it would appear that a bushelage rather than an acreage basis gave the best hope of success for bringing about a better relationship between wheat production, consumption and control over exports by the principal wheatexporting countries, though the quota plan would tend to relieve the pressure on world markets and prevent one country dumping wheat against others. Under the international plan the individual grower would be under no restrictions as to acreage and production, but the maximum amount he could market from any given crop would be fixed. How he treated the balance would be entirely in his own hands. He believed that any legislation enacted to provide straightout acreage reduction would be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to enforce.