WHEAT ORDER
WORLD’S LARGEST BUYER. 9,500,000 LOAVES A DAY FOR BRITAIN. The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Food, largest buyer of wheat in the world, has broken its own record with an order for 120,000,000 bushels (about 3,000,000 tons) placed with the Canadian Wheat Board. The previous largest purchase was of 100,000,000 bushels, ordered by the Ministry last year. The new consignment is to be delivered during the twelve months ending May, 1942. Reckoning 563 41b loaves to the ton of wheat and using white flour of 75 per cent extraction, this will provide Britain with 3,378,000,000 of the 21b loaves her housewives favour. There will also be 750,000 tons of wheat-feed in the form of bran, middling and wheat germ meal, for Britain’s dairy cows, beef cattle, pigs and poultry.
If the wheat is converted into 85 per cent extraction national wheatmeal flour, 4,080,000,000 21b loaves would be produced, but only 450,000 tons would be available for livestock feeding. As Britain does not at present make more than ten loaves in every hundred from the higher extraction flour, a total of 3,448,200,000 loaves, representing about 9,500,000 loaves a day for the twelve months, is what Britain will obtain from this order.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1941, Page 3
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