PHOTO: Condobolin’s Crop of the Year Competition was won by Yarnel Pastoral Co. for a crop of Sceptor wheat that yielded 6.2t per hectare. Wal Dawson of Yarnel Pastoral Co. is pictured with crop competition judge Olivia Dawson, also of Yarnel Pastoral, and Condobolin’s Young Woman of the Year, Allessandra Chamen.
Yarnel Pastoral Co. had a convincing win in the annual Condobolin PAH&I Association’s Crop of the Year Competition, which was announced last night at the Don Brown Memorial Ewe Competition Dinner.
Wal, Brett and Olivia Dawson of ‘Yarnel,’ Condobolin stripped a paddock of Sceptor wheat in 2022 that yielded a whopping 6.2t per hectare with a gross margin of $1,143 per hectare. Their wheat was graded APW1.
It was a tough act to follow, but Paul Sinderberry of Carawatha Farming claimed second prize with a crop of Illabo wheat that yielded 4.5t per hectare with a gross margin of $1,179.79 per hectare, including grazing income. His crop graded ASW1…