MALTING BARLEY PRICES
THIS SEASON’S HARVEST CO NTRACT - GROWN GRAIN MINISTER'S STATEMENT (Pur Prass Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The arrangement in respect to prices and conditions applying to the 1938-39 mailing barley harvest, was announced by the Minister ol' Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, acting on the advice of the Barley Advisory Committee and following discussions with the principal buyers of malting barley. The Minister said that last season’s prices generally were approved by the growers’ representatives and similar prices would obtain in tile coming season fo all contract-grown barley. For stack-threshed, No. 1 grade malting barley, the following prices a bushel would operate:Central Otago-grown, 5s 4Jd. on trucks: Soupthland-grown Garston, 5s on trucks; Canterbury and North Otago-grown, 4s 10Jd on trucks; Nelson and Marlborough-grown, 4s lOid in store. As in the previous season, in all cases where the grower threshed out of the stook, a deduction in price of 3d a bushel on the stack-threshed basis might be made, and in cacli case tile respective stack or stook-threshed prices for No. 2 grade were 3d a bushel lower; for No. 3 grade 6d a bushel lower, and for No. 4 grade 9d a bushel lower than the district prices arranged respectively for stack or stook-threshed No. 1 grade malting barley.
The Minister added that it had been agreed that in all districts the period for which stack-threshed barley must have been in stack before being threshed was six weeks.
Attention was also drawn to the fact that the prices arranged for the 1938-39 season were applicable only to contract-grown barley, and the advisory committee had requested the Minister to urge all barley-growers to airange contracts. “Planned contract-growing,” said the Minister, "ensures in normal seasons the approximate equation between the local supply and the local demand,-and- is thus in itself a determining factor in the control of imports. ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19695, 29 July 1938, Page 14
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309MALTING BARLEY PRICES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19695, 29 July 1938, Page 14
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