THE OAT CROP
A SHORTAGE PREDICTED
(By Onr Travelling Reporter.) . While the yield from the oat crops in the, Wairarapa i 3 as large as in previous seasons, thero are indications that oats for seed and feeding purposes are likely to reach a high figure' in the very near future. The shortage is being brought about by the fact that very few farmers are threshing their oats. The high/ price that is rul.ng for oaten sheaf chaff— £ll 10s per ton —is tempting the farmer to get rid of his oat stacks in this manner, and very few are saving enough for seed done iri*the Wairarapa there are'good reasons to believe that agricultural farmers in other districts are doing likewise. If so a general shortage of oats must produce h : gh prices.
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Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1920, Page 5
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132THE OAT CROP Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1920, Page 5
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