The Exercise of the Third Grain Procurement Measures in 1936/37 Crop Year : The Gleanings from the Nazis’ Agricultural Policy Research

摘要

[SUMMARY] At first the grain crop prospect was very good. In particular the crop perspective of rye which has duplicate demand as food（bread） and feed was remarkably favorable. But the forecast prospect worsened as time went owing to the serious crop losses caused by bad weather and the harvest largely declined as a result. In addition, the Second ４ Year Plan was announced on ９ September. So the distribution of grain must have been previously and strictly controlled. Because the supplies mobilization program would be all the more needed. The distributive regulation of feed grain was also inevitably strengthened by the introduction of its own delivery certificate and the statement duty for resale towards the economic authority of grain in the involved state. In spite of these coercive arrangements, the delivery of food grain（particularly rye）sharply stagnated from the late autumn. The prohibition of the resale of food grain as feed grain was consequently ordered in January 1937. In the third grain procurement measures the whole quantity control was put into practice including the comprehension of the distribution of feed grain. Therefore the private initiative of the farmers engaged in animal husbandry came to be more severely than ever before restrained.