Crop Harvested
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pronounced this year is an
attempt by farmers to store
grain on the farm in an
ticipation of better prices.
He said he’s aware of a lot of
farmers who’re storing
everything they can.
Newton Bair, assistant
county agent in Lebanon
County, said they’ve had an
excellent harvest, too, and
termed wheat a bumper crop
this year. “Most of our local
elevators are full now/' Bair
noted, “and a lot of farmers
are trying to store on the
farm.”
Robert Hood, a partner in
Chester County’s White
Horse Grain Co., told us that
the wheat in his area was
just about cleaned up.
“Yields have been average
or better,” he said, “with
excellent quality. We have
had a bad problem with
garlic, though. About 20
percent of the wheat we’ve
received had to go into
feed.”
Hood added that the garlic
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problem was worse this year
then ever before, because
the exporters are refusing to
buy any garlicky wheat, and
the mills in the area don’t
want it either. He added that
a Congressman from
Virginia was looking into the
reasons behind a market
that was paying $3.85 for
number one wheat, but only
$2 for feed wheat.
John Hoober, a Lancaster
County grain dealer from
GordonvUle, echoed Wood’s
comments about garlic and
the export market. “It’s a
major problem for exporters
this year,” he said. “They
just won’t accept it.”
“Other than that,” Hoober
said, “the crop looks ex
cellent. I’d say yields are up
by a'third over last year, and
with the increased acreage
here in the county, we’re
getting maybe 40 percent
more wheat here. It’s the
best wheat we’ve seen in a
long time.”
Hoober said they had been
paying about $3.85 for wheat,
but it’s down to $3,50 now,
mostly because the ex
porters stopped buying on
Tuesday. He added that
they’ve been able to unload
trucks coming into the plant
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about as fast as they arrive.
There are reportedly some
places where drivers have to
wait up to eight hours to
unload.
One of the biggest wheat
farmers in the area, Joel
Coleman, said this was the
best wheat year he’d ever
had. Coleman is general
manager of Chester County’s
Georgia Farms, and planted
140 acres of wheat this year.
“We’ve had some fields with
up to 65 bushels. We have a
lot of different soils, so some
of our yields may have been
down around 40 bushels, but
I’d say we’re averaging
over-all around 50.”
Coleman- said they’d had
no problems at all with
garlic, getting their wheat,
out of the field, or to the
elevator. They own their own
combine and grain truck.
“We started out getting
$3.80 for the crop, it dropped
to $3.65 and then overnight it
went down to $3.00. We’re not
selling right now, we’re
storing grain at White Horse.
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