Crops Recover
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goes into storage around
November, and retail prices
typically rise as supplies are
reduced. Last season,
however, the shortage of
apples for the fresh market ■
and especially for processing
- caused an abnormally large
retail price increase. By
May 1974, prices were more
than 30 percent above those
of a year earlier.
Despite the price rise,
Canadian apple consumption
continues its long-term
uptrend. Currently, a gain of
7 percent to around 595
million pounds is seen for
consumption of fresh apples
in 1974-75.
Canadian production of
pears this year has
rebounded even more
sharply - some 32 percent -
than that of apples. Current
estimates place the crop at
87.1 million pounds, com
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pared with 66 million last
year. However, this is still
below the 90.9 million and
94.8 million pounds in 1972
and 1971, respectively.
Virtually all of the 1974
gain took place m Ontario,
where output more than
doubled the 1973 level to
around 41 million pounds.
The other major producer -
British Columbia - had a
crop of about 44 million
pounds, slightly less than
that of 1973.
This year’s larger crop
will allow Canada’s pear
exports to recover to around
2.5 million pounds in 1974-75
from the low 703,000 of 1973-
74. This would about equal
shipment in each of the 2
previous years.
Also as a result of in
creased production, imports
of fresh pears can be ex
pected to drop back to about
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Commercial nurserymen
and vegetable producers
picked up some useful new
production ideas and market
predicitons at the recent
meeting of the Peninsula
Horticulture Society in
Princess Anne, Maryland.
Reporting on the meeting,
Derby Walker, Jr., assistant
agricultural agent for Sussex
county, says there will be
several shortages of basic
chemicals used in the nur
sery and commercial
vegetable industries in 1975.
One of the most notable of
these will be a 10 to 20 per
cent reduction in the supply
of Dacthal from last year.
This herbicide is used ex
tensively in establishing
strawberries, as well as on
nursery crops. Another
chemical, Planavin (com
monly used on cucumbers,
50 million pounds in 1974-75
from the 61.6 million of 1973-
74.
Unlike apples, domestic
consumption of fresh pears
has been adversely affected
by last season’s shortfall and
attendant high prices.
Current estimates place
consumption of fresh pears
in 1974-75 at 97.1 million
pounds for a slight decline
from the 101.8 million of 1973-
74. At the same time, more
pears will probably go into
processing than in 1973-74.
Based on dispatch from
Office of U.S. Agricultural
Attache, Ottawa
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nsula Hort Meeting
Pent
peppers and other
vegetables), will no longer
be available at all, as the
company that makes it has
stopped its production.
Walker says, though, that
even with certain chemicals
being in short supply, there
are others that are adequate
substitutes for them. He
recommends growers check
with their local suppliers
regarding changes they may
have to make.
On the other hand, there’s
good news for greenhouse
operators and nurserymen
who’ve been having trouble
getting plastic trays and
similiar items. Not only are
supplies of these materials
good now, but one company
that produces them predicts
that their prices will be
coming down in 1975. The
same company predicts that
plastic trays will replace
peat pots in packing bedding
plants for sale.
Among useful new ideas
for commercial vegetable
growers was a report on a
new system for raising
tomato transplants. A
company in New Jersey is
now using a four-inch wide
trench eight inches deep,
with a high soil furrow along
one side as a kind of buried
cold frame for tomato
seedlings. Seeds are sewn in
the trench in early April and
the trenches are then
covered with plastic to
create a greenhouse-type
environment in which the
young tomato plants appear
to thrive. As the weather
warms up, holes are punched
in the plastic to keep down
temperatures and help
plants become acclimatized
for subsequent transplanting
in the field.
The company that has
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been using this technique put
in five acres of tomato
seedlings last year and found
that they were far superior
to those shipped in from
other areas. In particular,
they appear to be freer of
disease, and better suited to
regional growing conditions.
For the producer of
greenhouse vegetable
transplants there was
another useful idea-this one
introduced from Florida.
Plants are raised in plastic
trays shaped like an inverted
pyramid. Tomatoes, cab
bage, broccoli and other
transplants grown in this
type of tray appear to
become less pot-bound,
developing a root system
more like a tap root. They
harden up quickly in the
containers and have an
excellent resale value,
reports Walker. The new
style trays have been around
for a couple of years, but are
just becoming available in
this area.
New Society officers were
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elected at the business
section of the meeting. For
the coming year they will be:
President, William Guy of
Salisbury, Md,; Vice
President, Woodrow Whaley
of Laurel, Del.; Treasurer,
Ray Nicholas of Vienna,
Md.; Secretary, Herman
Hohlt of Painter, Va.; Asst.
Secretary, Derby Walker,
Jr., of Laurel, Del.; and
Editor, Chuck McClurg of
College Park, Md.
Two awards for out
standing service to
agriculture on the Delmarva
Peninsula were presented at
the meeting. Those honored
were Curtis Jones, Jr., of
Franktown, Va., and Her
bert Richardson of
Wyoming, Del. Jones is a
vegetable grower and for
mer Pen-Hort president.
Richardson is a fruit and
vegetable farmer who has
served the Society as its
treasurer for 22 years.
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