CANADIAN WHEAT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 164, 14 July 1933, Page 5

CANADIAN WHEAT

EXPORT PLAN FAVOURED WINNIPEG, July 12. A wheat export plan, based ou an international agreement, with the establishment of national marketing boards in each of the principal exporting ■countries, is favoured by the wheat pools in the western provinces. Previously the pools have favoured acreage reduction schemes announcing their stand for a quota plan. Mr George Robertson, secretary of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, said that it would appear that a bushelago rather than an acreage gives the best hope of success in bringing about a better relationship between wheat production and consumption. Control over exports by the principal wheat exporting countries through a quota plan would tend to relieve pressure on the world markets, and prevent one country from 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 bo fixed. How he treated the balance would be entirely in his own hands. “e believed that legislation enacted to provide straight acreage reduction would be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to enforce,