WEATHER AND WHEAT YIELD IN CANTERBURY.
Summarizing in the Journal of Science a recent study of the relationship between the various meteorological - factors and the wheat yield at Canterbury Agricultural College over a period of years, Dr. E. Kidson, Director of Meteorological Services, advances the following tentative conclusions : (i) The weather variations in winter are responsible for only very slight variations in the wheat yield cool and dry conditions are probably favourable, (2) In spring and summer warm and moist conditions are favourable, especially in the growing-period, but considerable losses may be caused by heavy rain in February. (3) There seems to be little prospect of making a useful crop forecast any considerable time before harvest, since conditions in the period immediately preceding the cutting of the crop have the greatest influence on the yield.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1, 20 July 1929, Page 34
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135WEATHER AND WHEAT YIELD IN CANTERBURY. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1, 20 July 1929, Page 34
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