Wheat by contract for Ashburton mill

Press, 1 June 1985, Page 21

Wheat by contract for Ashburton mill

Canterbury Roller Flour Mills Company, Ltd, is going to contract wheat growing this year for the first time, the chairman, Mr Jack Brand, told the annual meeting in Ashburton yesterday. The company was allowed by the milling industry to take 50 per cent of its requirements under contract. The final details were being decided on the contracts. Mr Brand predicted strong competition from other milling companies be-

cause of the contract wheat. Canterbury Roller was still in the market for the other 50 per cent of its requirements, “and hoping to buy it where we have been buying it in the past,” he said. The company would continue to endeavour to get as much Mid-Canterbury grain as it could through the mill. The fitting of the new sifter at the Ashburton mill had given the company greater flexibility in handling rye and wheat flour.

The company would be also increasing flour storage. After the meeting, Mr Brand said that last season Northern Roller Mills had been allowed to take a limited amount of wheat under contract. This year all the mills were allowed to take 50 per cent. On the performance of the company in the first five months of the current year, he said that trading was holding up well. The fitting of a new wheat-cleaning machine from the United Kingdom was also expected to make a substantial increase in production.