Details of entrants
The 12 entrants who won balloted plots for this year’s competition, their farm size and usual wheat cultivars sown are: John and Dick Boulton of Burnham, 207 ha, Advantage and Konini; Bill Wakelin of Prebbleton, 6ha, Rongotea; Allan Garrett of Springston, 220 ha, Rongotea, Weka, Otane; Bruce and Anthony Holmes of Highbank, 272 ha, Rongotea, Kotare; Donald and Alison Shearer of Winchmore, 157 ha, Konini, Oroua, Advantage; Noel Maginness of Winchmore, 173 ha, Oroua; John McGloin and Graeme Tallott of Cust, 220 ha, Arawa, Oroua;
John Lilley and Malcolm Campbell of Highbank, 264 ha and 190 ha respectively, Rongotea, Oroua and Otane, plus barley cultivars Fleet and Triumph respectively; Bill, Leo and Michael Gaffaney, Seadown, 270 ha, Kotare, Rongotea, Bounty, Weka, plus Triumph barley; Bruce Turpie of Femside, 206 ha, Rongotea, Oroua, Bounty, Weka, Kotare, Brock; Ronald McCloy, a Lincoln College student, growing Triumph barley; Brian Scott of Killinchy, 137 ha, Rongotea, Weka, Acclaim. At this stage in the competition the key figures are the plant
counts per square metre and the establishment cost, or the cost for each competitor to get his plants up through the surface.
Those figures are: Boulton 185 plants per square metre, $221.86; Wakelin 131 plants, $279.47; Garrett 138 plants $229.01; Holmes 206 plants, $290.49; Shearer 143 plants $168.48; Maginness 177 plants $242.50; McGloin and Tallott 179 plants, $278.20; Gaffaney 188 plants, $230.67; Turpie 212 plants, $165.62; McCloy 90 plants, $253.63; Scott 145 plants, $195.65; Lilley and Campbell 180 plants, $274.08.
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