WHEAT GROWING.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14070, 11 March 1918, Page 3

WHEAT GROWING.

MEETING, IN f TIMARU. (Per Press Association) • TIMARU, March fl. At a meeting;of.the South Canterbury Executive of the Farmers' Union to-day, the president, Mr John Talbot, referred a}' length to the question of wheat-growing.: In the present harvest in South Canterbury the estimated average over all was about twenty bushels of milling wheat, and three or.four bushels of seconds, 'and averaging the cost, that: meant an average loss of 30s per ■) acre.' North Canterbury and North Otago were somewhat better, but nowhere was.the harvest' good.. , The price this year of 5s 10d was based on. an average of twenty-seven bushels. Unless the .present price was substan-. tially increased, farmers could not af- [ ford to grow wheat this ,vear, . A resolution was carried-unanimous-ly: "That the Government be asked to ■fix the price'for next year's'wheat at once, and unless the,price is substantially increased, wheat would not be grown." ......