SEASON’S WHEAT YIELD
AVERAGE REACHES 34.40 BUSHELS
HIGHEST FOR FIVE YEARS
The average yield of wheat in New Zealand up to May 23, when 203,923 acres had been threshed, was 34.40 bushels to the acre, according to figures published in the latest Abstract of Statistics, and compiled from returns from threshing mill owners. The total yield was 7,015,341 bushels. The average is the highest since the 193538 season, when the figure was 35.63 bushels. The average yield of oats was 43.65 bushels from the 52,144 acres, threshed, a total yield of 2,275,927 bushels. The figures are:—
Gisborne Hawke’s Bay Wellington . Marlborough . Nelson Canterbury Otago Southland Wheat Total threshed. Bushels. 1,581 8,400 164.625 251,129 27,288 5,672,585 825,280 174,823 Average Area yield an threshed, acre. Acres. Bushels. 51 31.00 x 290 28.97 3,064 39.13 7.560 33.22 844 32.27 165,450 33.68 21,778 37.89 3,098. 43.70 Totals 7,018,341 Oats v 203,923 34.40 Average Total Area yield an threshed. threshe a. iicre. Bushels. Acres. Bushels. Gisborne . — .. Hawke’s Bay 2,550 77 33.12 Wellington 27.082 794 35.24 Marlborough . 33.050 961 35.33 Nelson 11,656 360 33.30 Canterbury 1,218,537 32,767 37.13 Otago 336,036 6,833 49.31 Southland 646,316 10,362 62.37 Totals 2,275,027 52,144 43.69
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23362, 23 June 1941, Page 4
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