Crop Situation
By Dieter Krieg on the crop situation wos
The latest localized update made during the post week
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are beginning to drop off
here and there.
Ken Rutt, near
Quarryvillc, has about 110
acres of soybeans out this
or so while driving through y® and M y s l bcy l°° k as
parts of Ijmcastcr, Chester, g oadaa year. "You can
and Dauphin Counties. Most tell by counting the pods on a
of this report is based on s4a * k ' be explained. The
observations only, with a few av e ra RC Is about 80 to 120 , .
short Interviews thrown In p< s a °. 0 Win did the tiirl mil lut
for good measure. Taking Now In his fifth year os a , K . ( , (fl) , f, n , p |. u .[.. >Sh( ,
one crop at a time, here Is a P r ° d “f. r | - , Ru n lt wanted to sleep like a log’ Of
summary of what was seen expects to harvest his beans course there wore three Ixns
and heard in about two weeks. i ursun n wtrunn iwvs
CORN year, when he had 165 acres s .irmg tho s.imebed It vnis
M . II .U .. nlantcd in ,ovh«in, hi, TOMATOES erowded one got out and
filled yet but the majority y lclds averaged 40 bushels Tl ’c state crop reporting ' r ' od 10 sk ' ( 'P on th ‘* flo | ,r
opinion seems to T that per acre with some fields is estimating an ° r om ‘'; hls
stgc com *•*"« » « » boohok =vmg. )? cW.ns. s .ompor h.m mo, ,s
this vear There are some P«r acre. acre for tomato farmers in , tomt °‘ ,CK ,m . r ' s
mportoof’■■mally Scorn' Ru«dooWc^rop, s omc of U» Commonwealth. That la be
which comes as no suprise kls ke ds between barley and ■■■■■k pwits bmhbhk HMMK
considering how it was beans, and uses no com-) I I ll] ] A ]
growing this summer. The men ; ial fertilizer. "Beans ■■I■FVIi I i f 1 ■ ■ A I
crop has lost most of its rich e( ! u j re hme, he explained, ■ ■ I will |■l■ ■ |l [
green color during the past as ,on K as the pH level isKhLII ■■■■A iLkll |HmHJ
two weeks and the recent ° ka y> fertilizer is okay. » s ™ x Nn— v
rams are leaving stalks So >'. bean f r ,elds are rotated H mmm
looking rather ragged in Wltk carn {rom y®ar to year.
some areas. Weeds appear to be more ■
Com picking has started Pk ntl ful m soybean fields
for a few farmers; in fact fbis year then they have been
one York Countain was at it 1I ? pas - Although that
in early September. A fellow sho “ dn 4 craat « much « f a
in the Lititz area pulled his problem, and the soybeans
two-row picker through the themselves look good,
fields last week. Early yields growers say the poor weed
indicate a good crop, oopfrol is due to too much
although not as fantastic ~as ram dunn 8 the time fields
what we were led to believe w oro sprayed. _
during the growing season. , Ru 44 reported some spray
Pennsylvania’s 1975 dama ge m bis fields where
production of com for grain “ e Patterns overlapped but
is forecast at 88,560,000 asn 4 4 ?° ' concerned
bushels based on conditions because although the plants
September 1, according to ]y ere im tially burned off -
the Crop Reporting Service. came back with twice
This represents a one per- as man y P^ 8 as * h at is
cent decrease from 1974. ave rage. He thought
Yield is expected to be 82.0 something m the spray must
bushels per acre. have stimulated their
SOYBEANS gr *!Sl . .
The once dark-green fields . Another observation made
of soybeans are turning to a Ru 44 15^ans
rich yellow color and leaves lR .^/ eo4 from
J floodmg. He said he had one
field under water for three
weeks and the crop wasn’t
hurt. That may help to ex
plain why poor soybean
fields are rather scarce in
the area.
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TOBACCO
Tobacco cutting continues
in Lancaster County - that is
it did until the rains came
along. Most of the crop is in,
and what is still out looks a
little thin compared to
earlier harvested fields.
That appears to be
especially true for tobacco
fields in eastern portions of
the County.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Sept. 27.1975
HAY
In an earlier issue of this
paper. It was reported that
good quality hay may be
scarce this winter. If that
situation has changed - It's
changed for the worse. The
two main reasons for the
bleak outlook continue to be
the relatively meager cut
tings and the interfering
weather. Windrows looked
very thin on most fields last
week.
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considerably lower than the
20 or more tons per acre
reported by growers in
southeastern and south
central sections of the state.
Harvesting was still going on
strong until the rains came.
Need It.
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