WHEATGROWERS IN WAR TIME
♦— — QUESTION OF HIGHER PRICE The "awkward position of the wheatgrower" in war time was commented upon in the annual report of the North Canterbury district of. the New Zealand Farmers' Union, which was presented to the provincial conference yesterday. The report stated that the wheatgrower was being pressed to grow wheat. If he did not grow it he was thought unpatriotic, and if he asked for a higher price to cover added costs, the same charge was levelled at him. "Too many lose sight of the fact that breaking away from a balanced rotation, or bringing in marginal land, or pushing the land too far are all factors which come into costs and call for a reckoning, which as usual the farmer will most assuredly have to pay." continued the report. "Costs continue to rise and a conference with other South Island executives and United Wheatgrowers has been held to go into the matter of price for the coming season. Better that a few favourably situated should receive a little too much than that the majority should receive much 100 little."
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23966, 5 June 1943, Page 6
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185WHEATGROWERS IN WAR TIME Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23966, 5 June 1943, Page 6
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