Harvesting barley on the Mid Canterbury Vintage Machinery site of the former Tinwald sale yards, south of Ashburton. Photo / Struan Christie
Mid Canterbury Vintage Machinery Club has harvested another bumper crop from its 8ha holding paddock at the former Tinwald saleyards.
It was a good barley harvest of seven tonnes per hectare, one of the highest yields harvested since the club started farming it in 2017.
Last year, club members got
7.6 tonnes per hectare of dryland yield, well up on their 6.5 tonnes the year before.
The 2018 yield was double the volume of the first season's crop.
The crop is no longer harvested by club members, due to a shortage of available combines and many members being involved in fulltime farming or with less time available.
