Twin Valley
Young Farmers
Begin Programs
Twin Valley Young-Adult
Farmers met on November
11, 1974 in the vocational
agriculture classroom of the
Twin Valley High School.
Mr. Robert S, Moyer,
assistant high school prin
cipal, welcomed the young
adult farmers and their new
educational program to Twin
Valley.
Dick Coughenour and Don
Shrifer, Advanced Ag
Associates representatives
from Demotte, Indiana,
presented a program on soil
and crop management. Mr.
Coughenour showed a slide
presentation to illustrate
that proper soil management
will build-up the organic
matter of the soil and in
crease crop yields. Mr.
Shrifer emphasized the
importance of the concept
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“Living Soil" for proper
plant nutrition and animal
health. He pointed out that
both the quality and the
quantity of agricultural
products could be increased
through total management
of the physical, chemical,
and biological processes of
the soil.
The Twin Valley Young-
Adult Farmer planning
committee has the next
educational meeting
scheduled for Tuesday,
December 17,1974. The topic
for the meeting will be
Comparing Com Hybrids.
Speaker for the evening will
be Mr. Glenn A. Shirk,
Chester County Agr. Agent.
Programs and activities
for the young-adult farmer
program are selected and
planned by the planning
JAMESWAY
Feed Grain Crop Reduced
Com production prospects
nationally were lowered to
4.6 billion bushels as of
November 1. This was 2
percent less than forecast on
October 1 and 18 percent
below output in each of the
past 3 years. Sorghum grain
production, forecast at 609
million bushels, was 4
percent below last month
and 35 percent less than the
1973 record crop.
Total feed grain produc
tion this year is estimated at
165 million tons, a fifth less
than last year and 3 million
below last month’s estimate.
With this change, we have
reduced both projected
committee. Committee
members arc: Gary Stoltz
fus, Elmer Hertzler, Titus
Beam, Frank Stoltzfus, and
Milford Mast, all of Elver
son, RD2.
Each monthly educational
meeting will feature a topic
designed to meet the needs
and interests of the mem
bers. Meetings are open to
anyone working in
agriculture or related oc
cupations. If you have an
idea or educational program
that you would like to see
developed, please contact a
member of the planning
committee or the
agricultural section of Twin
Valley High School.
FARM
VENTILATION
Crop Forecast Highlights
domestic use and carryover
a little since our last report.
Total feed grain disap
pearance for 1974-75 is
forecast at 175 or 176 million
tons, leaving a minimal
carryout of around 11 or 12
million next fall. Domestic
use may total 126 or 127
million tons (down 18 per
cent from last season) and
exports about 30 or 32 million
(down 28 to 33 percent).
Less Soybean Output
The November crop report
indicated a 1974 soybean
crop of 1,244 million bushels
compared with last month’s
estimate of 1,262 million and
last year’s output of 1,567
million. Yield per acre is
placed at 23.7 bushels
compared to 24.0 in October
and 27.8 last year. The
reduction in the 1974 crop
estimate since October is
mainly reducing the an
ticipated crush. Soybean oil
Increasing Corn Yields
Agricultural scientists are
seeking ways to utilize more
energy from the sun to in
crease yields of com, the
nation’s most important
grain crop, as announced
recently. The occasion was
the annual joint meeting of
the American Society of
Agronomy, the Crop Science
Society of America, and the
Soil Science Society of
America.
One solution is to develop
com plants that can use two
or three times as much solar
energy as absorbed now,
declared Dr. Jack C.
Shannon of the College of
Agriculture at The Penn
sylvania State University.
He said that com plants now
use less than one-half of 1
percent of the solar energy
reaching a cornfield.
The com plant’s capacity
to convert sugars into starch
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and meal exports in Sep
tember proved less than
anticipated, reducing the
1973-74 marketing year totals
and increasing carryout.
Rice Output Boosted
The 1974 rice crop as of
November 1 is estimated at a
record 114.8 million cwt, up
1.2 million from the October
report. Increased acreage
and yields in Louisiana are
responsible. Demand
estimates for the crop are
unchanged from our last
report.
Cottom Prospects
Deteriorate
Weak demand and smaller
production keynote the 1974-
75 cotton situation.
Production prospects
declined further during
October as wet weather in
the Delta and Texas dropped
yield prospects. The in
dicated national average
yield is now 443 pounds per
may be one of the processes
regulating yield, Dr.
Shannon suggested. He and
his associates at Penn State
are carrying out ex
periments to determine the
pathway of starch biosyn
thesis in intact living cells.
Their research is one aspect
of long-range studies seeking
ways to improve crop yields.
Dr. Shannon and
associates, including
graduate assistant Liu-Jen
Chu of Taiwan, have
established tissue cultures of
the starch-storing cells, the
endosperm, from corn
kernels. In his comments,
Dr. Shannon reviewed
studies designed to establish
optimum conditions for com
endosperm tissue culture
growth and starch ac
cumulation.
He reported that a simple
modification of the growth
harvested acre, sharply
below last year’s 519 pounds,
and moderately below the
1969*73 average. Production
is estimated at 12.1 million
bales, down 6 percent from
the month-earlier forecast,
and 7 percent below the 1973
crop.
Meanwhile, sluggish
mill demand both here and
abroad is reducing total
cotton use. Both U.S. mill
consumption, estimated at
6.3 to 6,8 million bales, and
projected exports, at 4 to 4.5
million, are moderately
below earlier indications and
sharply below 1973-74 levels.
So with disappearance below
production, we expect about
a 5 million bale carryover on
August 1, 1975, compared
with last summer’s 3.9
million.
Note: The November crop
report carried no wheat'
production estimates. Also,
our wheat demand projec
tions are unchanged from
our last report.
media stimulated starch
accumulation. This
suggests, he said, that such
endosperm cells may be
used as a model system for
studying starch biosynthesis
in intact plant cells. These
tissue cultures are currently
being used for studies
designed to establish the
pathway of starch biosyn
thesis.
Eventually scientists will
be able to genetically
combine plants having
improved capacity for
having higher rates ot
photosynthesis and im
proved capacity for
movement of
sugars from the leaves into
the kernels. When this oc
curs, genticists should be
able to produce a plant with
a much improved utilization
of solar energy.
What retail prices have
jumped highest in the past
three years? Food prices. Ac
cording to U.S. Department
of Labor figures, bacon has
since 1971 gone up 103%
followed by potatoes (98%),
pork (91%) and eggs (81%).