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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20621, 21 July 1930, Page 10

(Published by Arrangement.) UNDERMINING THE WHEATGROWERS' MARKET. Tito advocates of duty freo wheat for stock feed purposes arc evidently not awaio of how the achievement of their object would cripple tho whole wheat industry. Totally absent from their considerations is the fact that there is no clear lino of demarcation between fowl wheat and milling wheat. With the duty removed and with wheat - for poultry feed selling at say Is 3d per bushel less than milling wheat, tho demand for milling wheat would be diverted to tho lower grades and the wheatgrowers* best market would collapso. A further factor that would pull down prices below profitable production would be tho offering of a 9,000,000 bushel crop on a 6,500,000 bushel market, assuming that (ho normal market for fowl wheat requiring 2,000,000 bushels would be closed owing to the duty diverting business in th«t class of wheat to overseas. Whatever concessions are mado to stock food consumers it will bo readily seen that a firm stand must be taken to i prevent tho wheatgrowers' market being undermined and a vital key industry ruined.