N.Z. CLOVER AND GRASS SEED

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25638, 29 October 1948, Page 9

N.Z. CLOVER AND GRASS SEED

BIGGER EXPORTS TO BRITAIN POSSIBLE (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, October 27. Further encouragement to New Zealand’s export seed trade may follow discussions held by Mr R. B. Tennent, New Zealand Assistant Director-Gen-eral of Agriculture, who is now on his way back to the Dominion. Before leaving London he remarked that there appeared to be a distinct shortage of certain classes of high grade pasture seeds in the United Kingdom, which had been forced to import them from countries outside the Commonwealth. He believed, however, that there was full recognition of the value of New Zealand's high grade strains of clovers and grass seeds among farmers in the United Kingdom, and he was hopeful that the Dominion’s export trade would benefit. Mr Tennent’s visit was to assist the grassland development campaign in the United Kingdom, and he found that farmers were much interested in the possibilities of a greater use of grass. There was room for a great deal of improvement in grassland farming in the United Kingdom, he said. The tendency was to leave pastures down too long, and not to give them sufficient phosphate and lime. There had beer) a most successful milk production drive, though this had meant a considerable reduction in store stock for fattening, and the prices •for them were at a premium. British arable farmers he considered to be without a peer.