THE WHEAT YIELD
SHORTAGE PREDICTED Bv Telegraph—Pres, association CHRISTCHURCH, January 29. Competent observers predict that New Zealand’s wheat yield this season will be little more than 30 bushels to the acre, and that approximately 1 500,000 bushels will have to be imported to meet the domestic requirements of the Dominion. The wheat acreage this season is estimated at the low total of 222,000 acres, compared with 252,423 acres last season, and 230,523 in 1934-35. In the 1932-33 season the total acreage was 305,924. Of the Dominion total between 180,000 and 190,000 acres are in Canterbury. Farmers in this province are finding that their crops are extremely deceptive. A good example of this was afforded in the case of a North Canterbury grower, who estimated his yield at 40 bushels, and found it threshed out at 31 bushels to the acre. The quality of much of the grain has been affected by the weather, and loose and stinking smut and mildew have done widespread damage to crops on the heavier land.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20639, 30 January 1937, Page 10
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170THE WHEAT YIELD Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20639, 30 January 1937, Page 10
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