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HAY POSITION CRITICAL

MANY TONS NEEDED

DRASTIC CULLING OF HERDS

The. estimated amount of hay which will be necessary to see farmers in the Whakatrtne district through the winter months is two thousand tons or sixty four thousand bales. The Fields Instructor Mr Marryatt, of the Dept, of Agriculture told a Beacoii representative that it ivas now rapidly becoming a question whether or not it would pay the farmer to feed liis cows through the winter even supposing that the vast amount necessary were forthcoming. Hay, he said, was going to be very difficult to land in the Whakatane district at an economic price. Hawke’s Bay had absorbed almost all of the surplus grown in the Manawatu area and at present the only supplies in sight for Whakatane were possibly from Taranaki. Drastic culling of herds, would, be necessary to make the. existing food supplies go as far as possible and to the best advantage. Many farmers now were preparing ground in which to sow green cereals and turnips as soon as the weather broke, and should rain come within-the next three weeks, it was possible that a fair amount of paspallum silage would be available.

In the meantime, the Department of Agriculture at Wellington was checking each district in order to ascertain the exact supplies or deficit of hay with an eye to directing existing supplies to areas where it would be most needed.

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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 46, 22 February 1946, Page 4

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HAY POSITION CRITICAL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 46, 22 February 1946, Page 4

HAY POSITION CRITICAL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 46, 22 February 1946, Page 4

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