GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS
(By Our Commercial Editor.) Markets remain firm and quiet, with no appreciable volume of business. Perennial rye appears to be commanding most attention Quotations to Farmers Quotations to farmers for various lines of small seeds and other produce are as follows: Potatoes.—Sutton Supreme. £2l a ton; Red Dakota, £2O 15s; any other variety, £l9 15s. All prices f.0.b., sacks extra. Ryegrass (M.D.) —Certified perennial mother seed, 22s a bushel; p.p., 21s; uncertified, 10s; Hl mother seed, 20s a bushel; standard, 19s; uncertified, 10s. Italian, mother seed, 12s 6d a bushel; standard, 12s 6d; uncertified, 8s 6d. White Clover (M.D.). —Mother seed, 3s 7d per lb; p.p., 3s sd; uncertified, 3s. Red Clover (Cowgrass).—2s 5d per lb, machine dressed. Cocksfoot.—ls to Is 6d per lb, certified depending on quality. Browntop (M.D.).-—9B/90’s, 3s 6d per lb. Lupins.—6s to 6s 6d a bushel, on trucks (sacks extra).
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27149, 19 September 1953, Page 8
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