Beef for Beefeaters

Beef-loving, beef-rationed Britain last week made a deal to take all the Canadian beef that Canada can ship overseas in 1944 and 1945. Canada will finance a large part of the cost out of her own version of Lend-Lease (Mutual Aid). The Dominion was glad to do so, for the deal was a good thing for both countries.

British beefeaters were assured of at least 100,000,000 pounds.

For Canadian farmers the deal opened the prospect of a fine postwar market. If Canadian beef can please the British palate, postwar shipments can be delivered in ten days or less. Such express shipments need only be chilled, not frozen. Canadian beef could command a fresh-meat premium price over Argentina's frozen product.

A British market for Canadian beef and bacon would help keep Canada's postwar agriculture diversified, reduce Canadian farmers' dependence on such vulnerable crops as wheat.

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