Lighter Cocksfoot Crop This Season

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 4

Lighter Cocksfoot Crop This Season

FOWL WHEAT IN GOOD DEMAND Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Fowl wheat continues to meet a good demand, the price having risen this week to 5s 4d f.o.b. Supplies are now shert. There is no interest at all in potatoes except that a small trade is passing in prompts, mainly to the West Coast. The forward market is attracting no attention. The small seeds season is at least a fortnight late and nothing has as yet been offered from the country. Stocks of Italian ryegrass in store in Canterbury are large, sufficiently so to offset the smaller crop which uow appears to be certain. Perennial rye stocks arc not big in Canterbury, but stores in Otago and Southland are well filled and from those quarters good seed is obtainable at last year’s values. Reports to hand indicate that there will in all probability bo a lighter cocksfoot crop than usual from Altaroa and the Plains. In many cases farmers re port that they have fed off the crops because seeding was too light to make them worth harvesting for seed. There is a fair trade in autumn onions at £ll on trucks. The spring crop will not be on the market for three weeks or so, but when it does appear prices cannot be expected to hold A comparative shortage of imported onions has assisted the market.