GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 37, 13 February 1934, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

MARKETS ARE STEADY. POTATOES A LITTLE FIRMER. There have been few changes in the grain and produce markets since last report. Local mills report a steady demand for pollard and bran, and merchants continue to place fair quantities of Australian pollard. Prices of these show no change. The oats market in the South is firm, but there has not been any definite alteration in values. Chaff is still selling locally at £7 10/ to £7 15/ per ton, but with so much green feed available the demand is limited. Wheat and Maize. . Efforts of southern shippers to raise the f.o.b. price of fowl wheat have proved unsuccessful, and ample supplies arc still available at from 3/3 to 3/4 per bushel. The local price is steady at 4/10 to 4/11 per bushel, through store. The demand for maize has decreased somewhat, a movement that ia gent-rally expected at this time of year. Adequate supplies are available from the Bay of Plenty and Gisborne. Potatoes and Onions. The potato market has firmed up within the last few days, due to wet weather having interfered with digging. However, growers are likely to obtain compensation later on, as the crops still to bo harvested will benefit very greatly lroin the rain which has fallen. This will tend to prolong the period, which must elapse before local merchants will call upon the southern market for supplies. A small consignment of South Island potatoes lias already reached this market, but full supplies from that source .are not. expected for several weeks yet. Onions are selling freely at last week's prices of 3/ to 3/3 per sugar bag. Fertilisers. There has been a fair demand for fertilisers, deliveries of superphosphate taking place daily, but there has so far been no rush of business. Deliveries of carbonate of lime, however, have been very heavy, and it is just possible that some farmers may intend to economise by dressing with lime only during the coming autumn. A small shipment of basic slag came to hand by the lonic. Wholesale Current Prices. . Pollard and Brai..—Mill prices: Pollard, £6 per ton; bran. £6 per ton. _ Merchants' prices': Pollard, local, £6 5/ per ton; Australian, £6 15/; bran, £6 5/. Oats.—Feed: B Gartons, 3/3 per bushel; A Gartons, 3/6; duns, 4/3; clipped Algerians, New Zealand, 4/6; clipped Gartons, 3/9. Fowl Wheat.—Canterbury, graded, 4/10 to 4/11 per bushel; undergrade, from 4/6 upwards. Maize. —4/6 to 4/8 per bushel. Barley.—Feed: Clipped, 3/11 to 4/ per bushel. Seed: Cape. 5/ per bushel. Maize Meal.—9/6 per 1001b. Barley Meal.—B/6 per 1001b. Wheat Meal.—7/6 per 1001b. Chaff.—G.b.o.s., £7 10/ to £7 15/ per ton, Blenheim or Canterbury. Potatoes. —Table: l'ukekohe, 6/ to 6/3 per sugar bag. Onions.—Local, 3/ to 3/3 per sugar bag.