WHEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16653, 19 November 1925, Page 10

WHEAT IN AUSTRALIA.

PROSPECTS NOT CHEERFUL. That New South Wales cannot expect to rea[) more than half its record wheat production of last year, owing to the dry season, is Hie opinion of Ihe vice-chairman of Ihe Australian Meat Council, Mr E. J. Gorman. On tin; other hand, the, fodder position in New South Wales is fair, except in (\ corner of the north, where, there is plenty of fodder to last until the April rains. In' Ihe excepted corner of a triangle, with Invcrell, Narrabri, and Mungindi as ils apexes—one of Hi,; finest pastoral areas in New South Wales—they have been hand-feeding slud stock for six months, and have sent other stock further west. That position generally is reversed, the west usually sending stock into that area for feed. Another unusual feature of the New South Wales season, he says, is that the area near Lachlan, and south of the Murrumbidgee, has good wheat and fodder, though it is outside the wheat belt in Riverina, particularly north of the Murrumbidgee. Around Wyalong the outlook is very good, on the whole. The rainfall, as in the last five years, is below the average.