CROP SHOBTAGE
NO WHEAT FOR EXPORT
(Received October 12, 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 11. Officials of the United States Farm Administration Board announced on
Thursday that no plans were being made for exporting wheat this year, in view of the short crop forecast of 496,000,000 bushels. Officials declared that the total supply of wheat in the United States at tho close of the present harvest would be 780,000,000 bushels, including a 290,000,000 bushels carry-over from 1933. About 625,000,000 bushels would- be required for domestic consumption and a carry-over into the 1935-36 crop year of 125,000,000 bushels was planned, leaving 3,600,000 bushels surplus, and the officials estimated that this would probably be reduced by increased feeding of livestock duo to shortage of othev febds.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 89, 12 October 1934, Page 9
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123CROP SHOBTAGE Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 89, 12 October 1934, Page 9
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