Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 October 1947.
Available supplies of rationed feedingstuffs are insufficient to compensate farmers adequately for the loss of home-grown feedingstuffs caused by drought, which has been widespread. Special additions to the cereal reserves for distribution at the discretion of the county agricultural executive committees have, however, been made in Norfolk and other eastern counties where supplies of homegrown feedingstuffs have been much reduced as a result of the poor sugar beet crops.