Agriculture: Lobby wants rules relaxed

THE wheat industry wanted grading and planting rules for the cereal relaxed to help increase yields and revive production after farmers sowed the smallest area since 1931 this season, the biggest grains lobby said. Possible changes to grading terms and to a voluntary agreement that stipulated which wheat varieties producers would be planted were among proposals the industry was considering, Grain SA chief executive Jannie de Villiers said last week. – Bloomberg