SMALL WHEAT CROP
, ESTIMATE IN AMERICA. HIGHER RETURNS ANTICIPATED. By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Rec. 9.55 p.m. Washington, Sept. 10. A combined wheat crop of 594,615,000 bushels, which is 30,000,000 bushels below the normal domestic consumption, was forecast by the Government Crop Reporting Board to-day. Excluding last year’s yield it will be the lowest since 1904. The average production from . 1928 to 1932 was 861,000,000 bushels. Officials hastened to give an assurance that the people’s needs would be met. They pointed out there was a carryover of 130,000,000 bushels in storage. From the farmers’ viewpoint, officials declared that the sale, if current prices hold, would return about £129,000,000 or about one-third more than the return from last year’s harvest.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1935, Page 5
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