WHEAT YIELD
OFFICIAL ESTIMATES TOTAL PUT AT 5,400,000 BUSHELS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. The following estimated average yield an acre of wheat, oats and barley for the season 1945-46, have been compiled from reports furnished by officers of the Department of Agriculture throughout the Dominion, says tonight’s Gazette (all in bushels an acre):—
The above estimates may be compared with last season’s actual average yields, which were:—wheat, 38.02; oats, 54.18; barley, x 37.ll. In accordance with the above estimates, the total yield of wheat for the season should be approximately 5,400,000 bushels, as against an ascertained yield of 6,992,204 bushels for last seasop. Assuming that the usual average area of oats will be threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 2,400,000 bushels, compared with a yield of 4,209,143 bushels last season. On a similar assumption regarding barley, the total yield /should approximate 2,100,000 bushels, compared with a yield of 1,384,957 bushels last season.
Wheat. Oats. Barley. North Island .. 38 41 49 Marlborough .. 33 38 39 Nelson .. .. 30 34 35 Canterbury .. 31 42 45 Otago .. .. 40 52 40 Southland .. ' .. 48 59 38 Estimated avge. for the whole Dominion 33 48 43
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24801, 15 February 1946, Page 4
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