WHEAT GROWING

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1930, Page 6

WHEAT GROWING

. ‘ , United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.] (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 26. In view of the Farm Boards plea that American wheat farmers decrease the acreage and Mr; scullin’s broadcast appeal to Australian farmers to increase the acreage, ..Mr Legge was asked to comment on the apparently anomalous position in the two largest wheat growing countries. Prices are on a world parity basis. He said: “It does not interfere with the programme ot the Federal Farm Board for wheat acreage reduct-Vm in United States. The purpp,- ..i- (be IV-ixl is to get what pro- (!•• t-'- ii in this country on a domestic n -rket basi4'[V If Australia and Ar-pc-itin ' iiiftr-rf?''- their . acreage, that slier-1 ’ ■>•••'' effect here. Tho nmro fact tbak aii acreage increase is being urged in .Australia does not neeissarily mean there will be increased production, because of the uncertain crop conditions there. ;

The Canadian wheat pool is advising Canadian farmers ! to plant less wheat. T think it would ,be to advantage... of other wheat exporting countries, to follow their example, but if they desire to cV otherwise that is no reason whv Amprican growers,should not get their production ns nearly as possible on a domestic basis.

WHEAT DUTY RAISED. BERLIN, March 25. The Reichstag read the third time a Bill raising the duty oil wheat to the maximum of 120 marks a toil, authorising the Government further to increase it in case of a sudden crisis in farming and if America throws a million tons, at present in storage, on the market.