asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will state in regard to the 1941 crop the anticipated yield of wheat, oats, barley, rye, potatoes, beet, green vegetables, turnips and mangels and contrast in each case the anticipated yield in 1941 with (a) the actual yield in 1940, and (b) the normal requirements of the community during the cereal year 1941-42.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Crop Yields.
It is too early in the season to form a reliable estimate of the yields of the chief tillage crops, seeing that only a small proportion of this year's grain crops has yet been threshed; that the lifting of the main crop varieties of potatoes has not yet been generally undertaken and that sugar beet and other root crops have not fully matured. Calculations based on anticipated yields often prove most misleading and, in these circumstances, I do not see my way to attempt to forecast the yields of the various crops mentioned in the first part of the question or to institute the comparison to which the latter part relates.
Will the Minister say when he hopes to be in a position to supply this information?
We usually get some estimate about December—not sooner than December.