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County Tobacco Growers Seil ’7O Crop
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(Continued from Page 1) some at 30, early this week and
. , , the crop moved rapidly. The
quoted a somewhat higher price pnc t because “we’re
than competitors for sorted “L hecau.e were
tobacco, also insisted on a very f f °, ,f° er cr °P® and
high quality product He ex- tobacco - explained one
plained that the firm uses its *
tobacco almost exclusively as Quality Crop
chewing tobacco and generally Most reports indicated the
disposes of its filler elsewhere cr °P this year was better over-
In straight stepped tobacco, ah than the 1969 crop. One buy
buyers reported that farmers er said the nicetine level in the
tended to hold the better crops tobacco this year is generally
in the face of the initial 28 cent desirable or relatively low, the
offer until late last week and burn quality is good and there
early this week. was relatively little damage
Then prices went to 29, with from mold.
Pa. Turkey Output Forecast Up
Pennsylvania turkey growers depend on growers’ reactions to
intend to raise eight per cent this report, price of feed, supply
more turkeys in 1971 than in and prices of hatching eggs and
1970 If these intentions mater- poults, prices received for tur
lalize, 2,450,000 turkeys will be keys during the next few
raised in Pennsylvania during months, and pioduction and
1971, accoidmg to the Pennsyl- prices of red meat
vania Crop Reporting Service _ , , """
A bieakdown shows 82 per Turkey glowers intend to raise
cent of the turkeys will be heavy P“ cent 1 I turk f> : 3 “
bleeds and the lemammg 18 per 197 } than m 1970 , T he intended
cent will be light bleeds The dechne 13 in f the , beav y bl f d3 >
total number of heavy breeds f.® - rOWGrs intGnd t c ° l ia 'f u abo ’; ,t
raised is expected to be 2,009,- the . sa f me numbei of h sht bieeds
000 birds, 9 5 per cent moie than gsjast year
in 1970. The light breed fore- If producers carry out present
cast, at 441,000 birds, is 12 5 per intentions, the 1971 U S turkey
cent more than the 1970 num- crop would total about 115 xml
ber raised. lion, compared with 116 million
The number of turkeys ac- turkeys raised in 1970 and
tually raised in 1971 may vary would be nine per cent less than
from the January 1, 1971, inten- the record crop produced in
tions of growers. Such changes 1967.
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P. L ROHRER & BRO., INC.
SMOKETOWN
Ph. Lane. 397-3539
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 6,1971
There were reports however,
of some individual farmers who
suffered substantial losses from
shed burn, which reportedly oc
curred during an extremely
damp week in the late summer
Another observer said the
crop had “good color and good
stretch” and was overall better
than last year, although some
late tobacco was “not too good ”
Elsewhere, there were reports
of some short leafed tobacco
Total Crop Down
Some buyers late this week
repoited that the overall Lan
caster County tobacco crop is
substantially smaller than state
estimates
The state had been projecting
a crop of 18,000 acies and 34
million pounds.
Estimates from three separate
buyers, however, showed a crop
closer to the 17,000 to 17,500
acre level with a total yield esti
mated at from 28 to 31 million
pounds
An Agway spokesman said
that both the yield per acre and
the total number of acres are
down from pievious estimates
He noted that anywhere from a
fraction of an acre up to about
four acres of tobacco weie
drowned on many farms during
the heavy rains last summer He
also said that fewer acres were
planted than expected.
A spokesman for A. K. Mann
Jr. said that heavy rains at
planting time stopped the plant
ing of many acres of tobacco.
He estimated a total crop of
28-29 million pounds.
A Lancaster Leaf spokesman
estimated a crop of 17,000 acres
and 30 million pounds. He cited
lower yields per acre, probably,
in the 1,700 to 1,750’ pounds per
acre level and labor shortages
as factors in the lower output
of. tobacco.
Some farmers, who have bee*
faced in recent years with both
rising operating costs and rising
costs of living, expressed disap
pointment with prices this year.
The Mann firm spokesman said}
the price was kept down by pres
sure from imported tobacco, in
cluding imports from the Philip
pines and South America. He
noted that one formerly impor
tant buyer no longer buys the
local crop.
Sorted and Stripped
Estimates were that about
half of the Lancaster County
tobacco crop was sold as sorted
and about half as straight' strip
ped.
It was reported that farmers
with better crops tended to sort
the tobacco to take advantage
of the higher price. One buyer
said that there were usually
about eight bales of the higher
priced sorted tobacco, which
generally sold at 33-34 cents,
to each one bale of the lower
priced tobacco which usually,
went at 20 cents.
Farmers who had suffered
shed burn or had poor quality
tobacco generally did not sort
it, it was reported.
There were also some high
quality crops sold as straight
stripped, however Farmers,
particularly including dairymen
who didn’t have the time to sort
the tobacco, often sold high
quality crops as straight strip
ped, it was reported
When the difference in price
between sorted and straight
stripped is more thah thiee
cents a pound -7- it was about
five at some,points in the selling
this year it generally payg
to sort the tobacco if the ciop
is good, one buyer reported
Overall, with nearly all the
tobacco sold, the report is, an
unexpectedly small crop Of ex
ceptionally high quality sold at
prices about the same as,, or
slightly lower than, last year.
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