WORLD’S WHEAT HARVEST.
LOWEST SINCE 1924
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE AS ESTIMATE.
(United Press Association —By Electric telegraph Copyright.) Australian Press Association.) Received 10,50 a.m. to-day. ROME, Aug. 28.
The International Institute of Agriculture forecasts that the Avorld’s Avhcat harvests for 1920 will be the loAvest since 1924, by reason of a drop of one hundred million quintals in Avorld production. There has been a prolonged drought in 'Canada and United States, while the European diminution was due to the relative failure of Rumanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian crops. The aiorthern hemisphere crop was smaller than the 1928 by three h un : d red million metric quintals. TTor four-fifths of the Northern Hemisphere the. estimated crop Aims G 43 million metric quintals as compared with 74G million in 1925.
AVASHING TON, August 28. It is officially announced that an Argentine Government report estimates the exportable surplus of ivheat in the Argentine as on August I's at 55,485,000 bushels. The carry-over from last year was estimated at 12,712,000 bushels and the new crop at 307,330,000. bushels.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 29 August 1929, Page 9
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172WORLD’S WHEAT HARVEST. Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 29 August 1929, Page 9
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