CEREAL CROPS
ESTIMATED DOMINION YIELD DECREASE IN WHEAT AND OATS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. The following estimated averages of the yield per acre of wheat, oats and barley in that order for the season 1945-46 have been compiled from reports furnished by officers of the Department of Agriculture throughout the Dominion, states to-night’s Gazette:
The above estimates may be compared with last seasons actual average yields, which were:—Wheat 38.02, oats 54.18, barley 37.11. 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 season. Assuming that the usual average area of oats will be threshed this year, the total yield of grain would be approximately 2,400,000 bushels, compared with a yield of 4,209,143 bushels last season. On a similar assumption regarding barely, the total yield should approximate 2,100,000 bushels, compared with a yield of 1,384,957 bushels last season.
North Island Wheat. Oats. Barley. ..38 41 49 Marlborough ..33 38 39 Nelson .. .. 35 Canterbury .. .. 31 42 45 Otago .. .. ..40 52 40 Southland .. 48 59 35 Estimated average Dominion .. .. for .. 33 48 43
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 6
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