The Archive · 1937

Wheat and Flour

World wheat markets fluctuated considerably throughout the week under review, as although, there remains no doubt of {he serious Gamage suffered by the Canadian crop, exact information is unobtainable, and in the face of very heavy marketing of the winter crop by th farmers, buyers are holding off pending clarification of the situation Liverpool and Winnipeg lost about 1% per cent. over the week, Ir Shanghai, there is a considera! shortage of both wheat and flour, and finally an embargo was put on the export of flour following further reports of the deficiency of this year's crop, and large shipments of flour to the Northern ports.

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