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June 2023 Edition
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THIS EDITION Mongolian shearers
p5 NAIT campaign
p15 Better results: The Henderson family completing their most recent harvest on Limewood Farms near Mt Hutt.
Harvest wraps up with p25 improved results
Celebrating 25 yrs
El Nino signals
After a largely wet and disappointing harvest last season, Canterbury farmers are enjoying some better results this year as the last of the combine harvesters head back to the shed for another season.
] by Kylie Galbraith p44
Wet weather and lost days contributed to lower crop yields and quality, so brighter days and a drier growing season have certainly been welcomed. James and Jo Doyle have 400ha at Mayfield, on the Canterbury Plain, about 45km inland from Ashburton, and have just finalised their harvest, both on their own place and on
other farms they service with their contract harvesting business. On their own place, Eden Terrace, they grow milling wheat, seed wheat and seed barley, perennial grass seed, Cocksfoot grass seed, pak choi seed for Asia, Marrowfat peas that go to Korea and finished up with the harvest of radish seed at the start of April. The Doyles started harvesting their grain crops towards the end of January, about two
weeks behind when they usually expect to start, but James said as they approached the finish line, the overall result was “average to good, not outstanding”. “We’re quite high altitude here, 350m above sea level so we missed out on quite a lot of sunshine. Lower down, on the lower Plains, around Ashburton, they had better yields because they beat us on sunshine down there,” James said.
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