asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries if he is aware of the great dissatisfaction amongst farmers in regard to this year's price for feeding barley and the price of millable wheat of the 1970 crops; and if the matter can be reviewed at this stage so as to grant a substantial increase in the price of these crops to all tillage farmers.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Grain Prices.
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I am satisfied that the prices for feeding barely and millable wheat recently announced by me are fair and reasonable and I do not propose to amend them this year.
Is the Minister aware that the farmers would need £3 7s per barrel for feeding barley, instead of 44s 9d, and £6 3s for wheat, instead of £4 4s, in order to have the equivalent in money value that they had in 1954? Is the Minister further aware that while other sections of the community have got 12 increases, representing an increase of 147 per cent in wages, the farmers, our primary producers, have been neglected?
Why is the land so dear?
Would the Deputy, or any Deputy, suggest that in 1954 they even dreamed of the yields they have been getting in the last two years?
Corn 2/- a stone.
(Interruptions.)
If Deputies wish questions to continue I will call Question No. 36.