Author: United States Department Of Agriculture

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9780265072066

Excerpt from The Wheat Situation, Vol. 106: May-June-July 1948 The European wheat crop for 19148 (excluding the Soviet Union) is tentatively forcast at l, h5o million bushels compared with million bushels in 19h? And an average of million bushels in the prewar years. Larger crop than in 19h? Are reported for all countries. Rye production, forecast at 600 million bushels, is about 20 percent larger than the low production last year, but still 20 percent less than the average for 1935-39. In the Soviet Union, the present outlook for total grain production is about the same as it was in 19h7, but still below the prewar average. Production in Canada may fall below the 1935-39 average of 312 million bushels. Last year's production was million. The l9h8 crop deterio rated steadily from.the middle of May through June according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Deterioration was temporarily checked throughout most of the drought area by rains in the first week of July. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.