GROWING OF WHEAT
Retarding Influences
The offer of a price equal to about half of world parity had been sufficient to induce the growing of about half the national requirements of wheat, said Mr A. McMillan at the annual provincial conference of Federated Farmers yesterday. Growers had given up complaining about the price, and had turned to easier and more lucrative types of farming, but in the years of drought and shortage overseas New Zealand might yet regret that she had forced her own .wheatgrowers out of business. "By your spare part and repair bills those of you on billy country with eight and ten-year-old tractors will have no difficulty in understanding why cultivation must be reduced to a minmum," he said. The attitude of the Government to the importation of tractors and tools of trade so urgently required had ben disastrous to increased production, while the delays and humbug had been disheartening to producers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27092, 28 May 1949, Page 4
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