GRAIN PRODUCTION
Estimates For Season
MORE WHEAT, LESS OATS AND BARLEY By Telegraph—Frees Association WELLINGTON, February 8. The estimated average Dominion yields per acre of wheat, oats and barley for the season 1939-40. according to figures published in the gazette, are as follows, the actual average yields for last season being given for purposes of comparison:—
In accordance with these estimates the total yield of wheat for 1939-40 should be approximately 8.370,000 bushels compared with an ascertained yield of 5,564,136 bushels last season The total yield of oats should be about 2,240,000 bushels compared with 2.604,817 last season and the total yield of barley 870,000 bushels compared with 1,076,774 in the previous season.
Wheat 1939-40 1938-39 Bushels Bushels , 33 29.40 Oats 44 47.86 Barley 3G 40.03
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21574, 9 February 1940, Page 6
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126GRAIN PRODUCTION Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21574, 9 February 1940, Page 6
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