Series: Official Sub-Committee. Meetings 1(39) - 5(39) Papers 1(39) - 18(39)
Taylor Kenkel
A file of meeting minutes and memoranda concerning the deliberations of the Official Sub-Committee on Food Policy. Subjects covered include the stocks and supplies of essential foodstuffs such as wheat, sugar, oil seeds, meat, and dairy produce; the proposed introduction of meat rationing; and concerns over falling supplies of sugar. Further topics covered include plans to increase the amount of agricultural land for food production; the introduction of price controls on livestock; and the impact of food pricing policies on wages and the cost of living. The file also covers the status of sheep farming and the wool industry in Scotland; and the wartime brewing and distilling industries, with discussions on taxation revenue, social impact, exports, employment, and the impact of the redirection of barley and maize stocks for use as animal feed.
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The National Archives · 18 December 1939 English
154 increase in home production is to be secured, a higher level of prices will be necessary for agricultural products generally." It is quite clear in the Ministry's opinion that …
The National Archives · 1 December 1939 English
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 …
The National Archives · 18 December 1939 English
151 5. There has been a good deal of adverse criticism during the present war against the "pooled" article which frequently accompanies the institution of control. In the meat scheme …
The National Archives · 4 December 1939 English
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON FOOD PRICES C.F.P. 1. Memorandum on Food Price Policy in relation to Wages and the Cost of Living 1. Retail food prices, as measured by the Ministry …
The National Archives · 1 November 1939 English
43 3. The present objective is the ploughing up of at least 1,500,000 acres of grassland for cropping in 1940. When this objective was decided upon in 1937 it was …
The National Archives · 30 November 1939 English
71 The Sheep Position in Scotland. Memo by the Department of Agriculture for Scotland. 1. Comparing 1938 with ten years ago the sheep population has on the whole varied little …
The National Archives · 29 November 1939 English
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The National Archives · 18 December 1939 English
4. The representatives of the fanners took the view that the prices fixed in the November 11th schedule must now be regarded as out of date in the light of …
The National Archives · 2 December 1939 English
102 understand, it should give as much latitude to farmers as possible so that it can be applied to the different circumstances and systems of hundreds of thousands of farms, …
The National Archives · 30 November 1939 English
39 The greater part of the home crop of oats, amounting to about two million tons, still remains on the farms and, owing to bad threshing weather and the ###ct …