Family’s wheat hit ‘all marks’

Grand champion wheat crop winners (from left) Mary, Stephen, Glenys and Peter Blain, all of...
Grand champion wheat crop winners (from left) Mary, Stephen, Glenys and Peter Blain, all of Flemington, at the awards for the United Wheatgrowers’ competition. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
Mid Canterbury’s Blain family from Strathern Farm won the judges over for growing the best wheat crop last season in the United Wheatgrowers’ competition.

The mixed arable farmers of Peter and Glenys Blain run the farm with their son and daughter-in-law Stephen and Mary at coastal Flemington.

The family had earlier won the feed wheat award before their crop sample also went on to win the grand champion wheat crop.

Their Dawsum feed wheat crop was ticked off by judges for both its high yield and quality.

Judges described the crop sample as an attractive line, which hit "all marks" with a high yield.

Other category winners for milling wheat were William Thompson, with the cultivar Cochise, while Brian and Rachel Leadley, from Dromore’s Bradley Fields had the best biscuit wheat with the cultivar Voltron.

In the premium milling wheat category Geoff Maw, from Rakaia’s KG Maw Farming, came up tops with the cultivar Reliance.

The winners were announced at the Arable Awards in Christchurch.

Results:

Feed wheat — 1 Stephen and Peter Blain , 2 Ross Richards, 3 Redmond family.

Biscuit wheat — 1 Brian and Rachel Leadley, 2 Hurst Farm Partnership, 3 Philip Gray.

Milling wheat — 1 William Thompson, 2 Clemens family, 3 Jim and Jocelyn Petrie.

Premium milling wheat — 1 Geoff Maw, 2 Craig Muckle, Millisle Farm, 3 Redmond family.

 

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