This recorded commission speaking turn consists of a supplementary question to Professor Gerlach. Lederer asks whether Gerlach’s surprising earlier observations apply equally to all cultivated crops, or whether a shift in agricultural production would alter productive capacity and sales:
Lederer: Ich hätte noch gern einige Ergänzungsfragen an Professor Gerlach gestellt, insbesondere, ob die Ausführungen, die er vorhin machte und die für uns überraschend waren, für alle Kulturgewächse gleichmäßig gelten, oder ob die zu erwartende Umorientierung der Landwirtschaft auf andere als bisher gepflegte Kulturen eine Änderung in der Leistungsfähigkeit und daher auch im Absatz bedingen würden?
English translation: Lederer: I would have liked to put a few supplementary questions to Professor Gerlach, particularly whether the observations he made earlier, which surprised us, apply equally to all cultivated crops, or whether the anticipated reorientation of agriculture toward crops other than those cultivated hitherto would bring about a change in productive capacity and therefore also in sales?
His conceptual move is to question the generalizability of technical findings across crops and connect changing cultivation patterns with economic outcomes. The intervention identifies an uncertainty relevant to the potash discussion; the supplied turn contains neither Gerlach’s earlier observations nor his answer.
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