AREA SOWN IN WHEAT

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23964, 3 June 1943, Page 4

AREA SOWN IN WHEAT

* CANTERBURY POSITION COMPARISON WITH LAST SEASON Indications are that the area sown . in wheat by farmers in Canterbury this season will be at least as gre as , the area sown last year, rn information was given to the wot Canterbury District Council of Prim ary Production yesterday by liaison officer of the Wheat Cprnnu tee (Mr H. Worrall). who said tna* with a bit of luck there might be little increase. . m Mr Worrall added that apart from delay caused by the hard ground a finding fertiliser the sowings were not bad. The sowings in North Camer bury were not quite so good as in j rest of the country. In the south opinion seemed to be that sov.i -g would be approximately the same last year. “The labour position is very san factory, and I have had no complaim of difficulties from my colleagues, said Mr Worrall. “Labour is m reasj . onably good supply, and the Jjjll and the National Service Departments have adopted a new basis of °P ticn, which is working out quite sat factorily. Fertiliser is definitely trouble, however. Deliveries are > and only the fact lhat ; the season late has saved trouble.” , Mr Worrall said that seed wM sales had been in excess of last y • He added that the Army wasi j ' cerned about the number of a .A. A men on farms, and it might o virable for farmers to make a effort to rep l ace these men before essential spring work began.