GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 197, 17 May 1941, Page 13

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Canterbury Markets

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Muy 16.

Grain and produce markets continue quiet, with little activity in any section. Apart from a reasonably healthy export inquiry, the small seeds trade is almost at a standstill as local trade has finished for the season. Export trade is conditioned entirely by the amojini of shipping available. Potato digging is now in full swing bul. apart from a small increase in the price of Suttons, there has been no change in the market. Deliveries are being made to the North Island but. orders are small compared with what they have been in the past. The crop is very patehjj 1 Seme districts report exceptionally good , yields and quality but in others the crop has been only mediocre. Suttons have not turned out as well as was hoped and the disappointing return has caused 'in improvement in tlie price io £S on trucks Whiles are still nt. £7. . . More Lucerne than usual has been at- , fi red (his season and is si ill coming in. The quality of the seed has been even more patchy than usual, the bulk of Hie ciop in some eases having in ide only second grade. The crop, from ji seed point of view, met bad weather this year. • Much of the crop, which was maturiiig , well, was given new stimulus b.v wet wenllier earlier in the year and had to be harvested with mature pods, immiit'.ii'i 1 pods* and Howers on the same stalk. 'Pile value is from 1/- to 1/6 per lb.