CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 285, 2 December 1933, Page 4

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

INTEREST IN NEW CROPS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Interest in the grain and produce trade centres chiefly in the prospects of the incoming crop. Ihere is general agreement that the yield of all seeds and cereals will show a reduction. Ryegrass and cocksfoot especially come within this prospect. An important influence on the prospects ot next year's supply is that about 1000 tons of ryegrass have been exported this season and the new crop will arrive on a very bare market. It is expected that cocksfoot will also be a much smaller crop, but there has been no export of this seed. There is still a small quantity of ryegrass being shipped, but there is not now much seed in farmers' hands. Prices remain at 2/6 to 2/9 a bushel on trucks for good quality. Cocksfoot is unaltered in price, being worth Glid per lb for Akaroa and 5%d for plains on trucks. There has been a little business in chaff at £3 5/ a ton, f.0.b., sacks included, but beyond this there is practically uo business in oats products. A Gartons are quoted at 2/4 to 2/5 a bushel, f.0.b., Lyttelton. The new season's oats "will be in early this year as crops are commencing to change colour on some of the light land in mid-Canter-bury. Merchants are disinclined to speculate in forward business in potatoes, although prices are tempting in that direction. The uncertainty of the North Island demand and the favourable season so far in Canterbury are acting as a deterrent. Prices mentioned so far range from £2 to £2 5/1 on trucks for main. crop. I