CROP ESTIMATES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25457, 11 February 1944, Page 2

CROP ESTIMATES

YIELD OF WHEAT AND OATS SHARP DROP INDICATED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 10. The following are the estimated average bushel yields per acre of wheat, oats, and barley for the season 1943-44, published in to-night’s Gazette: Wheat. Oats. Barley.

Last season’s actual average yields were:—Wheat, 34.21 bushels; oats, 49 90 bushels; barley, 36.91 bushels. In accordance with the above esiimates the total yield of wheat for the 1943.44 season should be approximately 7,700,000 bushels, compared with an ascertained yield of 9,819,342 bushels for the 1942-43 season. The area from which oats were threshed for the five seasons ended with 1942-43 averaged 22 per cent of the total area under that crop Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year the total yield of grain will be approximately 2 100,000 bushels, compared with a yield of 2,808,774 bushels for the season 1942-43 On a similar assumption in regard' to barley the total yield of grain will be approximately 1,120.000 bushels compared with 1,057,008 bushels’for the 1942-43 season.

North Island districts 34 34 38 Marlborough .. 30 32 32 Nelson .. 19 23 23 Canterbury .. 30 40 33 Otago .. 37 44 40 Southland 38 58 41 Average (estimated for Dominion 31 43 34