Potato digging is now nearing completion in most districts, and crops are generally turning out well, says a Canterbury writer. Some growers have been left with fair quantities on hand, and unless the market recovers they will lose substantially by not accepting the prices offering two months ago or more. It is undoubted that if growers made a general practice of accepting the off forks price offering early in the season they would do better out of their crops than by holding. The writer the other day saw five substantial pits on one farm. The market is very slow at the moment, and as the season is getting on there is some misgiving that prices will not show much improvement. The upsetting factor in the position this season has been the uniformly good yields, which have ojoui Aue fiutop tuo.tj jr paddojs put? more than compensated for the crops ruined by the February floods.
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Southland Times, Issue 22948, 22 July 1936, Page 13
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