ESTIMATED YIELDS OF WHEAT, OATS, AND BARLEY.
The following estimated average yields per acre of wheat, oats, and barley for the season 1927-28 have been compiled by the Census and Statistics Office from reports furnished by Inspectors of the Department of Agriculture throughout the Dominion, and issued under date 8th February :—■
In accordance with the above estimates, the total yield of wheat for the Dominion should be approximately 9,200,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 7,952,442 bushels for the season 1926-27. The percentage of oats threshed for the five seasons ending with 1926-27 was 27-05 of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 3,650,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 4,997,535 bushels for the season 1926-27. Estimated average yields of barley were furnished this year for the first time. The percentage of this crop threshed for the five seasons ending with 1926-27 was 98-16 of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 750,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 1,243,333 bushels for the season 1926-27.
Correction. —A misprint occurred in the first paragraph- of last month’s article on the Northern Wairoa Experimental Farm (page 37) in the stated area of riverflats along the Northern Wairoa River. The figures should have been 120,000 acres, not 20,000 acres as printed.
Wheat. Oats. Barley. District. Bushels per Bushels per Bushels per Acre. Acre. Acre. North. Island 30-61 38-52 . 34-34 Nelson 19-00 21-95 23-00 Marlborough 30-20 35-76 34-89 Canterbury 34-52-43-76 39-03 Otago . . 34-82 41-74 32-97 Southland 34-3 44-26 32-00 Average (estimated) for the for the Dominion, season 1927-28 34’37 43-12 '35-77 Average (actual) for the for the Dominion, season 1926-27 36-13 42-58 41-60
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2, 20 February 1928, Page 148
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304ESTIMATED YIELDS OF WHEAT, OATS, AND BARLEY. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2, 20 February 1928, Page 148
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