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The Canadian Agricultural Price Support Programme*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

J. F. Booth
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Much of the activity relating to the support of agricultural prices in Canada is conducted under the authority of the Wheat Board Act and the Agricultural Prices Support Act, but the programme in its broadest sense involves other legislation and a variety of government policies. Part of this programme originated in the inter-war period and earlier years. This paper, dealing with various aspects of the programme, is introduced by a brief outline of background developments.

Governments, both federal and provincial, have traditionally been concerned in the main with activities aimed at increasing efficiency in the production and marketing of farm products. These have included experimental and scientific research; efforts to improve the quality of plants and animals; the introduction and enforcement of grades and standards for marketing; and extension work designed to acquaint farmers with useful information as it became available.

During the First World War this pattern of activity was enlarged. At that time the federal Government took over control of the marketing of wheat. It gave to a body known as the Board of Grain Supervisors authority to fix the prices and to market the crops of 1917 and 1918. This proved to be the forerunner of a development that has since come to occupy an important place in government activity.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , August 1951 , pp. 334 - 343
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1951

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This paper was read at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association in Montreal, June 7, 1951.

References

1 Britnell, G. E. and Fowke, V. C., “Wheat Marketing in Canada,” Journal of Farm Economics, 11, 1949.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Booth, J. F., “The Agricultural Prices Support Act,” Proceedings of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, 1949.Google Scholar See also Turner, A. H., “Federal Marketing and Price Support Legislation in Canada,” Journal of Farm Economics, 11, 1949 CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Hope, E. C., “Food Surpluses and Agricultural Policy,” with discussions by Barton, G. S. H., Duckham, A. N., Strange, H. J. L., and Booth, J. F., Proceedings of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, 1950.Google Scholar

3 Agricultural Prices Support Board, Annual Report, 1949-50.

4 A. H. Turner, “Federal Marketing and Price Support Legislation.”