PRODUCE MARKETS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20514, 4 September 1936, Page 11

PRODUCE MARKETS

CHRISTCHURCH Bv Telegraph —Brest Association CHRISTCHURCH, September 3. As there is a probability of another potato shipment to South America taking place about September 12, the local market position should be clarified before very long. In the meantime quotations are the same as last week. At present there is very little inquiry from Wellington, but • a few inquiries were received from Auckland yesterday. Because of the wet weather, there will be no Auckland boat this week, the sailing having been arranged for next week. This will give the Auckland market a chance of cleaning vp its surplus stocks. Prompt whites are worth £4 5s to £4 10s on trucks and Dakotas £4 15s. The high price for fowl wheat, 4s 6d f.0.b., is now tending to restrict sales, not much inquiry being in evidence. A reasonably good demand is being experienced for oats, with no alteration in last week’s prices, chaff is if anything a shade easier at £4 15s f.0.b., s.i. No. 1 quality peas are a shade better at 5s on trucks, but for f.a.q’s and undergrade there is practically no inquiry at all. The small-seeds market remains fairly active, and there is a g0.:.1 demand for certified ryegrass. The fact that further large Government orders are coming to hand from the north for grass seed should keep the market in a healthy condition, and this factor affects practically all small seeds. No alterations in prices are reported. Up to August 31 the Wheat Committee had handled 6,209,000 bushels of milling wheat, and grain is still coming forward at the rate of about 5000 bushels a day. During September a good deal of stacked wheat will be threshed, and it is anticipated that mills will make fairly heavy purchases of wheat coming forward this month. Last year there was a short crop, the total handled being just under 5,000,000 bushels. A fair quantity of seed wheat is still going out, and indications are that the area sown in wheat will be much better this ye than was first anticipated. Tire following are the prices quoted to farmers, on trucks, at country sidings, unless otherwise indicated:— Wheat—Milling grade for September delivery, Tuscan 4s 9’d, Hunters 4s Hid, Pearl 5s lid, good whole fowl wheat, prompt, 4s 6d, f.0.b.; undergrade. to 4s 5d f.o.b. Oats—A Gartons to 2s 7d, B Gartons 2s sd, Algerians to 2s Id. Duns 2s 61. Ryegrass—Perenial 2s 3d to 2s 6d,

Italian to °s. Cocksfoot—Plains 6d to 7d. Akaroa 7d to BJd per lb. Cowgrass—6d per lb. White Clover—9d "to lOd per lb. Chaff—£2 17s 6d to £3 a ton. Barley—Feed 2s 3d to 2s 4d a bushel. Potatoes—White £4 10s a ton, Dakotas £4 15s a ton. Peas—4s 6d to ss. Pollard—Large £5 15s a ton, small £6 ss. Bran—Large £4 15s, small £5 ss.