CANADIAN WHEAT CROP

Shannon News, 3 December 1926, Page 2

CANADIAN WHEAT CROP

Returns to Canadian farmers on tlieir 1926 field crops Avill put more than 1,000,000,000 dollars into circulation in the Dominion this winter, according to estimates of agricultural experts based on crop reports. The five principal grain crops, wheat, Celts, barley, rye and flax figured on the basis or estimated production and current prices for delivery, will produce a revenue of 800,000,000. Corn, mixed grains, potatoes and root and fodder crops, the experts say, will return 250.000,000 dollars.

Wheat yield this year is placed at e 99,008,000 bushels by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, which will bo worth well over 400,000,000 to the growers. Practically the entire wheat crop of Canada is produced in the. prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Favourable effect of the crop situation on business conditions, It

is pointed out, will be apparent when the wheat crop begins to move to overseas markets. With the largest exportable wheat surplus in the world, Canada has become the leading wheat shipping nation. More than 200,000,000 bushels of wheat a year are being exported by the Dominion to other nations of the world.