REDUCED WHEATGROWING.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ASHBURTOX, this day. Inquiries made by a reporter confirm recent rumours of a sensational reaut tion in wheat sowings. One farmer saw that the wheat area in his district wouia be reduced by a quarter below lasi year's, another by sixty per cent, ana another by fifteen per cent. The re porter concludes that the decrease generally will average one third. Oβ - eral causes are operating, including better prospects for wool and laffiD, w delayed plouging owing to the nooae, and "a. desire of many farmers to resc land impoverished by successive wheat cropping. In consequence of delay* o ploughing a considerably larger areathan usual will be spring sown. One farmer says that one half the U3Ual crop is therefore likely- Farmers are keenT discussing the chance of a reasonable State guaranteed price for wheat.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 131, 4 June 1923, Page 4
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140REDUCED WHEATGROWING. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 131, 4 June 1923, Page 4
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