Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, September 14, 1968, Image 21

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Lancaster Farming. Saturday. September 14,1968
Export Opportunities For Ag
Products Continues Strong
The foreign market for U.S.
agricultural products continues
to hold at a high level.
Estimates by the USDA for the
year ending June 30 place total
agricultural exports at $6.4 bil
lion This is slightly less than
the immediate pre v i o u s two
years, but higher than reported
for most recent years.
Details are not yet available.
However, of inteiest to Pennsyl
vania producers and processors
aie these figures for the 1966-67
fiscal year;
Exports of fresh fruits and
various kinds of processed fruits
and fruit preparations totaled
5320 million This included $155
million in fresh fruits; $7l mil
lion in canned fruits, $47 mil
lion in dried fruits, and $37 mil
lion in fruit juices.
Exports of vegetables and
preparations totaled $172 mil
lion. Exports of fresh vegetables
totaled $6O million; canned and
other prepared vegetables, 60
million.
Exports of poultry products
totaled $64 million. This mclud-
5400 HEAD IN
FOUR FEEDER CALF SALES
LOCATED IN
CENTRAL VIRGINIA
"Where Quality is Outstanding"
Angus Hereford Steers Heifers
300 - 700 Pounds
Orange September 24 1200 Head
Charlottesville September 25 1600 Head
Culpeper September 26 1400 Head
Staunton September 27 1200 Head
All Sales Start at 1:00 P.M. (EDST)
Health requirements and all qualifications conform to the
high standards of the Virginia Feeder Cattle Association.
Second Series of Sales Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 1968
For further information Contact;
ROY HELTZEL, County Extension Agent
Culpeper, Va., Telephone: Culpeper 825-2281
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Grumelli Farm Service
Quarryville
Isaac W. Hurst
Blue Ball
R. M. Brubaker & Son Carl L. Shirk
Salunga Colebrook Rd., Fontana
ed 169 million pounds of poultry
meals, 11 million dozen hatch
ing eggs, and 1.9 million pounds
of egg solids.
Exports of dairy products
amounted to $122 million,, in
cluding 373 million pounds of
nonfat dry milk, 113 million
pounds of condensed and evap
orated milk and 15 million
pounds of dry whole milk.
Variety meat exports reached
232 million pounds, worth $6O
million.
Exports of tallow reached 2
million pounds, worth $156 mil
lion. Exports of hides and skins
totaled 20 3 million in pieces
worth $147 million.
U.S. exports of dairy breeding
cattle for the calendar year 1967
totaled 18,207 head. This was a
23 percent decline from the
previous year, due mostly to de
creases in exports to Italy, Can
ada and Mexico.
Pennsylvania exports of food
and kindred products amounted
to $41,209,000 in 1966, latest
year for which figures are avail
able.
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