Pampas growers get wheat harvest surprise

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RECEIVING just 60 mm of in-crop rain. Darling Downs (southern Queensland) grower Lyndon Pfeffer, was not expecting the very good yield his 2014 wheat crop managed to achieve.Lyndon and his wife Lyndelle ended the tough season with a Lancer crop that yielded 4.2 tonnes per hectare at their farm 'Bungaree', Pampas. "We really weren't expecting that because the season was very challenging, but we were extremely impressed," Lyndon said."The good profile of moisture from a 300 mm event in March helped, but from then on, we watched our wheat suffer."Sowing of the crop began in mid-June but they missed out on the good June rain that hit parts of the Downs, only seeing six mm for the month. The next shower came in August, with 33 mm, and the final rain event was 20 mm in September."The saviour was the soaking rain back in March which gave all the paddocks a good profile of moisture and enabled the crops to perform. It was actually a bit too much, as it compacted the ground, but it's what saved the crop."