JH/AGR/1/2 - [Norfolk National Farmers' Union]

JH/AGR/1/2

Sub file

[Norfolk National Farmers' Union]

1955-1973

435 items Mixed

Godber, Joseph
Marsh, Richard,
Maudling, Reginald
Taylor, Edward Macmillan,

United Kingdom. Parliament. House of Commons
National Farmers' Union
Norfolk National Farmers' Union
East Suffolk and Norfolk River Authority
Geldestone
Ellingham

Contains correspondence with Norfolk NFU officials regarding milk surpluses; attendance at NFU meetings; security of tenure and rent proposals in the 1958 Agriculture Bill; imports of potatoes, lettuces, and frozen peas; ice-cream regulations; Geldeston and Ellingham marshes; import licences; the 1960 Agricultural Holdings (Disturbance Compensation) Bill; the Agriculture and Horticulture Bill; horticultural tariffs; farm income; world hunger; egg producers, the price review cut, and egg imports; expansion of Norwich; farm improvement grants; tied cottages; NFU agricultural policy; brucellosis; Norfolk County Council Smallholdings Committee; beef cattle prices; the bacon industry; investment grants; rabbit clearance; imports and foot and mouth disease; fuel oil surcharge; sugar beet production; rail transport of horticultural produce; and the 1968 Transport Bill.

The file also contains press cuttings and correspondence on some of these issues with the national NFU, the East Suffolk and Norfolk River Board, Teddy Taylor MP, and officials of the Board of Trade (including Reginald Maudling, President), the Ministry of Transport (including Richard Marsh, the Minister), and MAFF (including Joseph Godber).