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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 7, 1973
Soybean
Planting
U. S. soybean plantings will be
up 19.8 percent this year and
production will total 1,512,000,000
bushels, according to projections
based on an extensive American
Soybean Assn, survey conducted
in mid-June.
The acreage increase, largest
in history, will result in total
soybean plantings of 56,332,000
acres compared to 47,003,000
planted in 1972 The production
increase, based on USDA’s final
1972 figure of 1,283,000,000
bushels, is slightly lower-17 8
percent-than the acreage in
crease because growers expect
the national average yield to be
down from last year’s record.
Both acreage and production
figures are about in line with
stated goals of USDA, which
makes its first official acreage
report on July 10.
Growers in a number of major
soybean states say they’ll in
crease plantings by over 20
percent this year compared to a
year ago with the entire Midwes't
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Intentions Up
indicating a boost of 22.8 percent.
There could still be some ad
justment from the survey
figures, however, since the late
planting season was still not
complete in a number of areas at
the time of the survey.
ASA surveys earlier in the year
had indicated a 4.3 percent in
crease in intentions in January
and a 12.8 percent hike in March,
close to USDA’s forecasts of 4.8
percent and 14.5 percent in
creases in similar reports. The
big surge in acreage since those
reports is the result of several
major program changes, high
soybean prices and the late, wet
spring in some areas.
Midwest farmers are least
optimistic about the yield outlook
while a number of growers are
expecting higher yields than a
year ago in the South, par
ticularly in the Southeast and
East Coast where Hurricane
Agnes in June and then a drought
in late summer hurt yield last
year.
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Calculating yields based on
growers’ thinking at this early
point in the season, the national
average yield would be down 2.6
percent to tlje 5-year average
yield of 27.3 bushels per acre
compared to the final figure of 28
bushels per acre last year. Late
planting and poorer seedbed
preparation are reasons men
tioned most often by growers for
lower expectations. Where
harvesting was late and losses
high last year, such as in Indiana
and the South, more growers
expect to do better this time
around, however.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of
the survey was the small in
crease in corn acreage the ASA
members planned-only a 5.1
percent increase in the Midwest
and a 6.3 percent boost for the U.
S. That would put corn plantings
at only 71 million acres, well
below USDA’s target. Cotton
acreage would be down 13.8
percent, the survey indicates, a
bigger drop than what the USDA
survey is expected to show.
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Don Turnbull of Poultry and
Egg Institute of America
presented his organization’s
proposal for egg market
stabilization to Northeastern
producers at a North east Egg
Marketing Association board
meeting recently in Syracuse,
New York.
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creation of an Egg Producers
Association to establish policies
relative to expanding and con
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laying flocks. All owners of
facilities for and-or flocks of
commercial market egg birds of
3,000 or more layers would be
members of the organization.
All producers with 3,000 layers
or more would be required to
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Association each time a flock is to
be replaced to stabilize the size of
the national laying flock. Charge
for the licenses would be about 2
cents per pullet, with charges for
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Secretary of Agriculture.
Turnbaull emphasized that
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stabilization program to be
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