Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Temporary Commissions and Organisations

In the 1930s the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries appointed a number of Agricultural Marketing Reorganisation Commissions to prepare marketing schemes and to investigate any matters affecting such schemes. Seven were set up, each concerned with a particular commodity: milk in England and Wales (1932) and in Great Britain (1935); pigs and pig products (1932); fatstock (1932); eggs and poultry in England and Wales (1933) and in Great Britain (1935); and hops (1935).

The Committee on Grassland Utilisation was appointed by the Home Secretary, R.A. Butler; the Secretary of State for Scotland, J.S. Maclay and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, D. Heathcoat Amory on 5 September 1957. It was set up under the chairmanship of Sir Sidney Caine as a committee of enquiry 'to consider methods of further stimulating the better production and use of grass in conjunction with other green fodder crops with a view to reducing the cost of production of livestock and livestock products and securing economies in imports of feedingstuffs and to make recommendations.' The report of the committee was published in November 1958 (Cmnd. 547) and relates to the whole of the United Kingdom.