SUPPLIES OF FEED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26415, 20 March 1947, Page 8

SUPPLIES OF FEED

THE POULTRY INDUSTRY DIFFICULTIES NOT ENDED P.A. WELLINGTON, Mar. 19. That the difficulties facing the poultry industry regarding feed supplies were not yet finished was indicated by the assistant DirectorGeneral of Agriculture, Mr R. B. Tennent, when he officially opened the conference of New Zealand Registered Poultry Keepers to-day. Mr Tennent reviewed the wheat position and suggested that the composition of the standardised mash might have to be altered. The world position regarding wheat, he said, was still very serious and investigations were now going on to consider the best means of distributing the wheat supply. The tendency had been for New Zealand’s wheat acreage to drop sc the country had to look overseas for supplies. New Zealand used approximately 12,000,000 bushels of wheat a year and of that 4,000,000 were used by the poultry industry. Negotiattons with Australia and five or six million bushels produced from the country’s own crop should see the supply position not so bad as might be expected. “ I can see no relaxation of the regulations covering the standardised, mash,” Mr Tennent said. “If distribution is to be ensured, the standardised mash w r ill have to be continued and it may be necessary to consider the revision of the composition of mash. If. that is done, it will be only out of dire necessity.”