DOCKAGE IN 1928 WHEAT 



The accompanying map, prepared by the office of Grain Investigations of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, shows that the percentage of 

 dockage in Montana wheat from the 1928 crop averaged 2.6 per cent compared 

 with 8.4 per cent for North Dakota; 7.3 per cent for South Dakota and 6.2 per 

 cent for Minnesota. 



Similar reports for preceding years have placed Montana the lowest in per- 

 centage of dockage among the Spring Wheat States. 



The newer and cleaner soils of Montana are reflected in this comparison, but 

 it is also a fact that Montana farmers by summer fallow and rotations are at- 

 tempting to keep down the weed problem that continuous grain cropping has 

 brought about in the older areas of the Spring Wheat Region. 



Dockage in Wheat as Threshed in 1928 

 Average Per Cent by Counties 



Average Dockage for North Dakota -8A%: South Dakota -7. 3% 

 Minnesota-6.2% and Montana-2.6% 



GRAIN INVESTIGATIONS 

 UNITCO STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 8URCAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



NATIONAL SITUATION OF WHEAT PRODUCERS IN 1928 



Producers of wheat in the United States in 1928 faced a situation wherein 

 v/ith a 1928 production of 903 million bushels or but 25 million bushels larger 

 than in 1927, and partly offset by a reduction in carryover of old wheat in July 

 of about 7 million bushels less than in July 1927, they encountered a world sup- 

 ply situation wherein the world crop outside of Russia and China was estimated 

 at 100 million bushels larger than the preceding crop, with Canada an important 

 export producer claiming to have an export surplus 60 million bushels larger 

 than, that of the big 1927 crop. Europe, the principal world market, on the other 

 hand in 24 important counties had produced a crop in 1928 that was about 108 

 million bushels larger than in 1927. The more distant factors in 1928 were the 

 outcome of the southern hemisphere crop and the northern hemisphere winter 

 plantings of wheat for 1929 harvest. 



World consumers of wheat, 'in view of this supply situation, were not eager 

 buyers with the result that the July to November imports of important European 

 importing countries were only 182 million bushels compared with 195 million 

 bushels for this same period in 1927. Canada, during the period July to No- 

 vember 30th, exported 226 million bushels compared with 122 million bushels 

 for the same period in 1927, but the United States, from July to December 8, 

 had found foreign market for only 93 million bushels compared with 149 million 

 bushels sold abroad in this same period in 1927. 



Cumulative receipts at 13 important wheat markets in the United States 

 between July and December 1 were about 339 million bushels compared with 

 326 million bushels in the same period last season. Visible supplies in the United 

 States by December 15th had reached 141 million bushels or about 56 million 



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