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The benefits of bulk harvesting in association with drying facilities for saving small seeds was underlined at the time of the break in the weather last week. A grain and seed merchant noted that before and after rain with seed shed in the windrows up to two-thirds of a potential crop Of short rotation or Italian ryegrass could be lost. But this season where farmers had been using bulk handling and drying and it was possible to proceed with harvesting of crops in only two or three days as opposed to six or eight, with early drying of the seed, up to 85 bushels of short rotation seed had been harvested to the acre in the Leeston district and a farmer in the Ashburton district had been able to save 70 tons of seed.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31588, 27 January 1968, Page 10
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