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NO WHEAT EXPORT

UNITED STATES PROPOSAL. AC RE AO E CURTAILMENT. (United I’rcss Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. Mr Alexander Legge, chairman <of the Federal Farm Board, declared tli'iit tlie boardV programme to place wheat production oil a purely domestic basis, thereby doing away with the surplus for export, was quite possible of accomplishment, within the next two years, unless a radical change takes place, in Lho world wheat situation. Ho stated that through feeding wheat to livestock, ail “adjustment rapidly is being brought about, ami the programme has not so very far to go.” :Tie stated that from the standpoint of. reduced acreage, a curtailment ol about 20 per cent, will be necessary to adjust the wheat production to the amount of the demand. He pointed out that the reduction of the spring wheat area would he about 5 per cent,, and a slightly larger one on the winter : crop acreage. . Mr Legge added that it was reasonable to expect a future repofcition of such a enrtaihnent.

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Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 December 1930, Page 8

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NO WHEAT EXPORT Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 December 1930, Page 8

NO WHEAT EXPORT Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 December 1930, Page 8

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