Bumper bread wheat yield in deepest Dorset

摘要

In the second part of our new series looking at growers achieving top yields, David Jones travels to south Dorset to find out how one estate is growing high-yielding breadmaking winter wheats on its thin and chalky soils.Jim Farquharson's formula of feeding his wheat crops and keeping them healthy has worked a treat, with one of his bumper breadmaking varieties yielding a shade under 14t/ha.His light, chalky Dorset soils produced some stunning yields last summer. Top of the pile was a crop of Crusoe at 13.8t/ha, which cost less than ￡50/t to grow in terms of variable costs.