WHEAT MARKETING

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 14

WHEAT MARKETING

Manager Meets Rangitikei

Growers PROBLEMS - DISCUSSED Dominion Special Service. Marton, January 11. At a meeting of Rangitikei wheatgrowers held at Marton last night, the difficulties with which the North Island growers were confronted last year under the regulations of the Wheat Purchase Board were fully discussed with the board’s manager, Mr. R McPherson. The meeting was presided over by the newlyappointed member of the board, Mr. G. L. Marshall, and the problems of grading and marketing were thoroughly ventilated.

As the outcome of a round table talk much valuable information was gleaned. Mr. McPherson assured local growers that samples of fair average quality wheat would be taken from a wide range of districts toward February and that the f.a.q. standard for the Dominion xvould then be set, He would undertake to send a sample to brokers as soon as possible. Mr. McPherson will also make representation to the board that millers bo appointed local graders* In answer to questions, Mr. McPherson stated that the board would buy all wheat of f.a.q. quality. The miller, of course, was concerned with buying wheat only of a good baking score. He suggested that as Rangitikei growers were in the habit of selling wheat as soon as it was threshed, arrangements be made with the local mill to take all wheat of f.a.q. quality on behalf of the board. Mr. G. Handerson, manager of the Marton Roller Flour Mills, stated that it was not the quantity that was the cause of the trouble, but the quality of the wheat. It was the matter of condition that counted from the miller’s point of view.

In answer to a question relative to millers buying inferior qualities at a reduced price, Mr. McPherson stated that the board could not accept responsibility for anything other than f.a.q. wheat. Sixty-one pounds was the generally ac■epted weight for milling wheat." Of recent years the price of fowl wheat had fallen far below that of milling wheat. The sample the board made as f.a.q. was the minimum possible to comply with regulations. With regard to grading. Mr. McPherson said that the responsibility for grading was not the broker's job. but the expert’s. To grade one must be handling varieties of wheat continuously, and in his opinion the miller was the most com-

petent man in this respect. LIVE STOCK MARKET

Feilding Sale STORE LAMBS FIRM Dominion Special Service. Feilding, January 11. A heavy offering of store lambs, with a keen market, were the features of today’s first stock sale this year. The lambs penned were mostly medium to inferior quality, but these found buyers readily operating and a very good sale resulted. Store ewes on the other hand were sticky and prices were in buyers’ favour, with some passings. Fau sheep, of which there was u heavy yarding, sold at par with closing rates, of last year, which were export values, and exporters bought generously, vendors being well satisfied with the range of prices. There was a smal. yarding of store cattle, with practically no demand, and any sales made were not particularly pleasing to vendors. Iu a light yarding of fat cattle best ox beet made 20/- per 1001 b. and best female beef 18/-, with dairy breeds at lesser rates. A very dull sale resulted lor dairy cattle. Fat sheep: Prime heavy wethers, 2-yf to 24/-; good weights, 23/l_ to 23/C; prime hoggets, 23/-; poor, 15/-; prime ewes, TC/2; very good, 14/10 tQ 'lo/2; medium, 14/- to 14/7; prime lambs, 22/a to 22/D; good pens at 20/7 to 21/9; poor, 16/- to 17/-. Stores: Two-tooth ewes, good, 20/3 to 27/2; fair, 23/- to 24/-; two and four-tooth ewes, 24/-; four-tooth, 22/5; m.a. ewes, 14/7; twotooth wethers, 20/1; poor line, 14/10; six-tooth wethers, 12/6; black-face lambs, good, 16/- to 17/9; fair. 15/4 to 15/5; shorn, 9/6; white-face wether lambs, good, 15/- to 15/3; fair condition, 12/to 13/9; light and inferior, 10/- to 11/10. Fat cattle: Holstein steers, £3/10/-; I’.A. cows, £4/4/-; P.A. heifers, £4/2/6; Hereford heifers, £4/15/-; light Hereford heifers, £2/10/- to £2/15/-; Hereford cows, £3/17/- to £4/2/6; Shorthorn cross cows, £4 to £4/5/-; P.A. bullocks, £5/10/-; Jersey cows, heavy, £2/15/- to £3/15/-; light, 27/6 to £2/10/-; Jersey heifers, heavy, £2/12/6 to £3/5/-; dairy springing cows to £3; springing heifers. £2/10/- to £4. Store cattle: Weaner heifers, 14/6; yearling Jersey heifers, 22/-; yearling Holstein heifers, 18/-; 20month P.A. steers, £4/10/-; bulls, 10/to £2/10/-; cows from 18/- to 36/-. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd., made the following sales: Fat lambs, 20/-, 20/9_ to 21/7; fat ewes, 14/-, 14/6. 15/-. 15/6, 16/2;. fat wethers, 22/6, 23/-. 23/7, 24/-; b.f. rape lambs, woolly, 15/5 to 16/9; shorn b.f. lambs, good, 15/- 15/6, 16/-, 16/6, 17/2; good shorn w.f wether lambs, 15/-. 15/9. 16/- to 16/3: medium store lambs, 12/-. 12/6. 13/- to 14/3; small lambs. 9/-, 9/6. 10/-, 10/6 to 11/9; store two-tooth wethers to 20/1. Eat cows, dairy sorts, £2, £2/5/- to £3. .Values at Eketahuna Dominion Special Service. Ekot-ahnnn, January 11. Competition at the weekly Eketahuna sale was keen, especially for rape lambs, ■a good number of which were offered for sale. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., submitted a good yarding to a large attendance of ■buyers, a clearance being effected at the following range of prices :— Sheep: Good b.f. rape lambs, 14/4, 15/2, 16/3, to 16/4; medium b.f. rape ■lambs, 12/6, 13/-, to 13/6; small b.f. lambs, 9/8 to 12/-; shorn wether lambs, 12/-, 13/6, 14/-, to 14/5; small shorn wether lambs, S/5 to 10/-; shorn ewe lambs. 16/10; 2-tooth ewes, 23/-; fltooth wethers, 19/-. Cattle: Yearling P.A. steers. £3/2/-; yearling P.A. heifers, £2; ■fat steer, £5; light fat cows. £2/17/-. Lambs Firm at Hawera ' Dominion Special Service. Hawera, January 11. The Hawera sale on Thursday, conducted by the N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. Organisation Society, drew a yarding of 3000 lambs, the annual drafts of local vendors. A very keen sale resulted, every pen being sold under tho hammer. Best woolly b.f. lambs. 18/6. 17/10. 17/6. 17/3, 17/-; medium wonll- b.f. lambs, 15/6. 15/3, 14/9; shorn b.f. lambs, 16/8, 15/10; ewe lambs, 16/8, 16/6, 16/2; wether lambs, 14/3, 14/2, 13/9.