Slow Threshing Season For Poverty Bay Ryegrass

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18922, 25 January 1936, Page 13

Slow Threshing Season For Poverty Bay Ryegrass

THE. ryegrass threshing season in Gisborne is one of the slowest on record. If commenced hue, and has been interrupted frequently by rain. Tmee uiins are engaged in threshing, but only a few lain died sacks have been sealed by the instructor in agriculture, Mr. E. M. Hates, under tne certification scheme so tar. As a result of the unfavorable weather since cutting, must of the. growers have taken the opportunity tu stuck their crops, but* several nave been left out in the rain.

! Those who have stacked their crops will be fortunate. Farmers who have not may lose much of their seed, if the wet weather continues for any length of time, for there is a danger of the seed" germinating under the humid anu wet conditions ruling, in any case, discoloration will take place In most of the crops left out in the paddocks, and the seed will bear a ding\* appearance. ■J:ear after year, ryegrass growers have been impressed with the advisability of stacking their crops, it they have to wait any length of time for the mill> but seldom nave they had an experience of seemingly enuless wet and humid conditions as has been the case this month. The crops were late in being cut, with a corresponding late start in threshing, and unless more settled conditions prevail the season may be a very long one this year. Hawke's Bay crops also are being affected by the weather, and considerable discoloration has taken place already in many cases. Twenty mills are engaged. [

Most of the Wairoa crop has been dealt with. The area in that district was not large, and the majority of the certified crops have been • threshed already.