asked the Minister for Agriculture whether, in view of the very high percentage of unmillable wheat and the prospect of much of this wheat rotting, he will set up an organisation which would deal with the problem and which would consider the possibility of part of the milling industry's equipment being used for the purpose of turning the unfit wheat into animal fodder.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Unmillable Wheat.
I do not propose to set up an organisation on the lines suggested. The drying facilities of the milling industry are at present being operated with the main object of saving potentially millable wheat. Up to the present, where circumstances permitted, quantities of unmillable wheat have been accepted by the millers, and, so far as my Department is concerned, every effort is being made to ensure that such drying facilities as it may be possible to divert for the drying of unmillable wheat will be available to farmers to have such wheat dried for disposal as animal feed.