BARLEY ACREAGE
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE By T‘‘l.*-: a;'* -!•:>-> Association CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday A substantial increase hi the area of malting barley sown this season is indicated in the estimate of acreage. A conservative total is 30.000 es, mi < vv ith about 22.000 acres last season. This figure d.-es crease in the area between now and the end of the month through bai ley being town on land prepared for wheat, which was not put in because of adverse weather. About 15.000 acres of this land is available, though only portion will be sown in barley. Of the Dominion total approximately two thirds is grown in Canterbury. Of feed barley it is reported that there has been a disappointing the Mini. ter of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, who asked North Island growers to sow 25.000 acres of Iced barley at a fixed price of 3s Gd. This price is apparently considered too low.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21245, 16 October 1940, Page 10
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