GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25238, 29 May 1943, Page 3

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

MARKETS UNCHANGED A few samples of milling wheat, threshed out of stack, are still reaching the market. The quality has to be of the best before millers are interested. The full payment to farmers for the month of June is 6s 3Jd, f.0.b., sacks extra, this figure including the bonus. Flour. Bran, etc. Flour: 200’s, £l3 15s 6d; 100's, £l4 12s 6d; 50’s, £l4 17s 6d; 25's, £ls 7s 6d. Bran, £5 5s per ton of 20001 b. Pollard. £6 15s per ton of 20001 b. Oatmeal: 2001 b sacks, £25 10s 6d per ton; 251 b loose, £27 0s 6d; 251 b packed .in sacks of eight, £27 10s 6d. Oats and Chaff The market for oats remains quiet, as millers are carrying sufficient stocks of white oats to meet their requirements for the time being. Dun and Algerian oats, however, arc meeting a steady inquiry for the North Island. Good heavy white oats, where a sale can be made to millers, are selling at the fixed price of 3s 6d per bushel, on trucks, country sidings, sacks extra, millers paying the railage. Drought conditions are being experienced in the North Island, and as a consequence there is a demand for chaff from the local markets. The lack of shipping space, however, presents a drawback. Good bright oaten sheaf chaff is not usually obtainable in Otago at this time of the year. Full Supplies of Potatoes Large quantities of potatoes are still reaching the ’market, and merchants are forced to put supplies into store. Here again lack of shipping space is affecting the shipment of potatoes to the North Island. Several lines coming to hand are frosted or badly graded. The fixed price to growers for June are the same as those for May—namely, £7 15s per ton, f.0.b., s.i., 1 Dunedin, for Arran Chiefs and similar varieties, and £8 5s for King Edwards and Sutton's Supreme, growers being required to pay the railage and other charges. •, Little Change in Seeds S' There is little change in the seed markets. Deliveries of Montgomery red clover are now being made from the outlying districts. The demand for ryegrass, both certified and uncertified, continues, and the market for fescue is a little firmer. The position as regards other' varieties of seeds is unchanged. Varipus Commodities Wholesale prices are as follows: Chaff: Good bright oaten sheaf, £6 per ton, sacks extra, ex truck, to £7, ex store. Fowl wheat: 5s 9d to 6s per bushel, ex store, according to quality and quantity. Butter: Bulk, Is per lb. Bacon, Is 3d per lb. Hams. Is 21d per lb; boneless, Is 4d. Egg Prices The Government fixed wholesale prices for eggs are as follows: —Heavy, 2s lid per dozen: standard, 2s 9d; medium, 2s 7d; pullets’, 2s 2d. The retail prices are: 3s 2Jd. 3s Old, 2s 101 d, and 2s sd.