YIELD OF GRAIN
ESTIMATES FOR SEASON (By Telegraph. —Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday 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, actual average yields for last season being given in parentheses:—Wheat, 33 bushels (29.40); oats, 44 (47.86); barley, 36 (40.03). 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 last season. The total yield of oats should be about 2,240,000 bushels, compared with 2,604,817 last season, and barley 870,000, compared with 1,076,774 in the previous season.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21034, 9 February 1940, Page 10
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