113 The experience of the past month has brought out clearly the danger of looking only at the total stock of wheat in the country, including the home crop, and disregarding the amount in the mills and the port granaries. The latter constitutes the effective working stock, because wheat on the farms is not readily usable and can only be threshed relatively slowly, especially in bad weather. Stocks of maize, barley and other cereals in the mills and port warehouses amount only to a few thousand tons and, as regards imported cereal feeding-stuffs, we are living entirely from hand to mouth.
- Civil Defence Region
- Nationwide
- Collection ID
- CAB74
- Document Reference
- CAB 74/8/18
- Document Types
- Memorandum
- File Reference
- CAB 74/8
- Former Department Reference
- FP(O)(39) 10
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.cab74.000008.018
- Keywords
- Agricultural Production Agriculture Cereals Civil Consumption Food Supplies Imports Overseas Trade Reserve Stocks Wheat
- Language
- English
- Organizations Discussed
- Ministry of Food Official Sub-Committee on Food Policy
- Pages
- 5
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Rationing Supply Agriculture Food Supply Licensing Price Control
