Harvest heats up

By Ken Wilson and Bobbie Hinkley
Updated March 10 2016 - 12:46pm, first published November 14 2013 - 4:00am
Konnongorring West farmer Peter Whitfield was enjoying a good run direct-heading Hyola 404 GM canola last week while celebrating the farm's 100th harvest.   "It's going between 1.5 tonnes a hectare and two tonnes and the oil is between 47 and 49 per cent, which is very handy," he said.  "We started last week and we'll get this done before heading into barley and lupins."
Konnongorring West farmer Peter Whitfield was enjoying a good run direct-heading Hyola 404 GM canola last week while celebrating the farm's 100th harvest. "It's going between 1.5 tonnes a hectare and two tonnes and the oil is between 47 and 49 per cent, which is very handy," he said. "We started last week and we'll get this done before heading into barley and lupins."

THIS week's run of hot weather will see a flurry of harvest action throughout the Wheatbelt.

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