WHEAT GROWING
-' ATTITUDk OF CANTERBURY FARMERS. By Telegraph.-Press Association. , Timaru, March 9. At a meeting of the South Canter-, bury Executive of the Farmers' Union to-day tho' president, Mr. John Talbot, referred at length to the question of ]yheat growing' and the present harvest in South Canterbury. The estimated average over all is about 20 bushels milling wheat and three or four bush- I ols seconds, and averaging cost that meant an average loss of 30s. per acre. North Canterbury, and . North Otago verc" somewhat better, but nowhere was there a good price this year. Five shillings and tenpence was based on an average of 27 bushels, and then there was the cost of production. Unless the present price was substantially increased farmers '•■ could "jiot .afford to. grow wheat this year. A resolution was carried unanimously that the Government be.asked- to'fix tho price for next year's wheat Rt once, and pointing out that .unless the .price is substantially increased wheat would, not be grown.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 8
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164WHEAT GROWING Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 8
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