Wheat quality up

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33448, 1 February 1974, Page 12

Wheat quality up

However in the case of Arawa Mr Cawley said that quality was somewhat lower than last year. The average score for the 976 samples was 37.1 compared with 35.5 for the whole of last season. Hilgendorf was again at the top of the table with a score of 39.4 (38.6 for the whole of last season), Aotea 36.4 (34.3), Arawa

31.6 (34), Kopara 37.2 (35.9) and Karamu 35.3 (33.1). At the same time last season Mr Cawley said that 2858 samples had been received, so even taking into account that the crop is smaller this year it is clear that the harvest is much slower in coming in on this occasion. This is easy to understand as there has not been a sustained period of good harvest weather in the past month, although there has been really very little rain. However, the flow of samples began to pick up on Wednesday when about 200 reached the institute. With more than 1000 samples to hand then Mr Cawley said that 10 bugdamaged samples had been received. As many of these samples were from Mid Canterbury as North Canterbury. However there had been no sprouting or other abnormalities about the samples, he said,

On the basis of tests carried out on 976 samples of wheat from the current harvest received by the Wheat Research Institute up to the beginning of this week the baking quality of all varieties, apart from Arawa, was slightly better than last havest, the director of the institute, Mr R. W. Cawley, said on Wednesday.