FODDER SHORTAGE

Grey River Argus, 8 September 1930, Page 4

FODDER SHORTAGE

IN UNITED STATES Grain Price Rises (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received September 7 at 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 6. There is an amazing shortage of feed grains and fodders, principally maize, silage and hay, resulting from the drought, in twenty-eight states. This is disclosed in a special Department of Agriculture Survey. The maize crop reduction, which is estimated as in the neighbourhood of 750 million bushels, has so aggravated the situation that even the estimated United States wheat surplus of 336 million bushels will be insufficient to offset the deficit in feed grains. Grain prices rose two cents to-day in Chicago. Speaking of the survey, Air Hyde said: “If we did not export one single pound of grain this year, we would have domestic, use for ’every bit of the grain for feed that we will have.” Dairy products and meats are expected to rise in price sharply this winter. The survey shows that the conditions have become more critical in the States that were first affected ,by the drought, and that there have been additions of new areas iu the .north and the central States. Twenty-eight States show a reduction of from thirty to seventy-five per I cent, of their feed production, while the feed stuff production for the naition is only seventy per cent, of the live year average. I World Wheat Crop I I BIGGER SURPLUS THAN LAST YEAR. I WASHINGTON. September I 'The world wheat crop totals 2,337.- , 139,000 bushels, and shows an increase ( of approximately three per cent, over .that of 1929. ' These are the figures given by the •United States Department of Agriculture on. the basis of the reports from j twenty-six countries.