GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2559, 16 April 1930, Page 6

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

CANTERBURY FItICES (Per Press Association) Christchurch, April 15. Offerings of wheat are now slackening off. Quotations are 5s 8d to 9J on trucks fur Tuscan, 5s lOd to 5s lid for Hun*ers,. and 6s Id to 6s 2d for Pearl. In some casts wheat jiot quite up to standard is being sold at Id t° 2d a bushel less than the prices quoted above. The market for fowl wheat keeps firm. To-day’s value is 5s lOd f.o.b. S.I. equal to 5s 5d or 5s 6d on trucks. Tlio oats market is in a peculiar position. A very small quantity has neon offered t lj js year, either in Tiniaru or Christchurch. The ley [o the position is held in Southland, where 'there have been good oat crops and fair quantities .are available. Tlie chaff market is quiet at £0 10s f.o.b. 5.1., equal to about C 4 17s 6<l on trucks. Very little chaff is offering. The potato market is quiet- The price to farmers for April--May is about C 3 10s per ton, on trucks. Owing to bountiful crops all round the bottom has dropped o,ut of flic enion market to-day’s quotation being £2 a t on -