

Growing wheat on your whenua
Wheat is a low-input arable crop for deep, fertile, well-drained soil and a mild climate. This factsheet covers planting, pest management, harvest and storage.
It then gives growing costs, current market pricing and returns using a Canterbury crop as the example, and the food safety, freshwater farm plan and QAgrainz quality assurance requirements.

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