MARKETING OF WHEAT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 88, 12 January 1928, Page 9

MARKETING OF WHEAT

ADVICE TO GROWERS BY Telegraph.—press Association. Christchurch, January 11. A statement setting out what has been done by the Wheat Committee set up by the Ashburton Conference last month was made by Mr. W. W. Mulholland at a meeting of the North Canterbury Executive of the Farmers’ Union. . . • Following was the committee’s advice to growers: That if the growers will refrain from rushing the market when there is any tendency for the market to sag, the value of ther wheiat for conversion into flour under the circumstances as they exist' with new sliding scale of duties should be 6s. 3d., f.0.b., on Tuscan basis. Therefore, there is no need whatever for growers to accept less than that price, and the only reason why they will be required to accept less or why they wlil find themselves in the position of being offered less, will be that their endeavours to sell beyond the .capacity of the market to absorb wheat ’is forcing the price down. Therefore, it is very desirable that all growers should make provision in one way or another for keeping their wheat off the market for a few months by provision of temporary storage on their farms. When necessary many farmers are quite able to store in straw in the paddock. Above all things, it is very desirable that growers should not get their “tails down.”