Crop situation (Continued from Page 1] m * BARLEY ®Much of the barley in the area, which would have been ready for combining within the next ten days, was chopped by hail and rain. Those who lost practically all tljeir acreage were seen cutting it down and removing it from the fields. One such individual was **o ***** OUTSIDE CALF HUTCHES WAGON BEDS TAPERED LOCUST POSTS FENCE BOARDS BARBED WIRE AND WOVEN WIRE FENCING. STOLTZFUS WOODWORK RD Gap, PA Box 183 1 Mile North Rt 897 From Gap M,KING «°“ MILK O' m Iw Our business is helping your cows MAKE MORE MILK With the Young s PRECISION NUTRITION PROGRAM your cows reoch ihetr full production potent of ond STAY THfrPE We ve been serving rhe doiry ndustry for olmost 75 years In oil that time MAKING MORE MILK for YOU has been our business EARLL UMBLE Lancaster PA 717 393 3201 GEORGE A. WARNER Codonis PA 717 229 2134 RAY L BRECHBILL Lititz, PA ' 717 626 5266 Richard Metzler. The Manheim area farmer baled his barley for straw, claiming that most of the grain had been shattered from the heads and was down too low for cominbing anyway. As of this -past Thursday he had short season com planted in those old barley fields. Metzler also reported MADE TO ORDER young’s the nutrition people who give you more YOUNG a INC nf ng P*nn»y v*» e AREA YOUNG’S REPRESENTATIVES JOHN S. RIEGEL MIII _ _ Sinkini Spnnf PA DAVID R. YODER 215 6712900 Belleville PA 717 413 $471 PAUL H. SHREINER Denver. PA 215 267 6235 DONALD E. STOVER Spnnf Mills PA 114-422 1535 CHARLES W. GLADDEN forest Hi. MD 3011315630 losing approximately half of his wheat crop. He noted that - the wheat loss was not as severe as withbarley its maturity was not nearly as advanced. “I- could hardly believe it until I saw it,” commented Metzler, adding that until the storm came he had what would have been considered an average crop. Reports from other areas - both within and outside of the storm’s path - also indicated that the 1976 barley crop would have been or is average. Metzler and several others, however, noted that the straw may be just a bit shorter than usual.. In the Quarryville area some farmers pointed out that barley straw was significantly shorter than in other years. John Yocum, of Penn State’s Field Research .Laboratory at Landisville reported that barley fields there were 80 to 85 percent lost. The wheat loss was estimated at “at least” 50 percent. A grain meeting, which was originally scheduled for the upcoming week was cancelled due to crops having been shredded. Yocum advises farmers who sustained substantial barley losses to get it off the field if they haven’t done so already and begin planting short-season com. “Jf they get it in by mid-June they should be in good shape,” he commented. A state-wide report issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture on June 9 said the state’s barley crop was 82 percent headed and 12 percent That's what counts ROGER SHALLENBERGER i. WESLEY STINER in the airy ess McAbslemHe, PA 717 463 2313 Berwick, PA 717 752 7314 * * 'Vip. .- V _ V* « K. -* <-V '■J'O /<- " *• -> v »' - ’jw v f^yf >\S* '£&, r -- :> V „vi» C<<‘^v : V# •'V ' X \ Young and battered corn plants are struggling in fields which were recently ravaged by high winds, hard rains, floods, and hail. On Tuesday, June 1, this portion of a field was covered by rampaging water which was more than a foot high in some places. This was the scene exactly a turning yellow. Almost all wheat fields have headed, and some are turning color. SOYBEANS Soybeans, look good - although much of it is only now beginning to show up above the surface, and in northern areas plantings are still continuing. Yocum told Lancaster Farming this week that the soybean fields at the research farm were just coming through when mild and rain washed them over and out. A Manheim area grower who had a similar experience was Charles Hummer. His plants had come through the ground nicely, but were snapped off by high winds, hail, rain and THE RIGIDPLY UNI-ARCH Here is an exceptionally strong and very easily constructed building, that is at the same time most attractive and allows the complete use of all interior space. An ideal and economical choice for: FARROWING HOUSE ipictured above], FATTENING HOUSE, VEAL HOUSE, MACHINERY, UTILITY or SHELTER. ONE COMPLETE BUILDING PACKAGE - with everything you need for the budding style selected, on a single delivery to your location • will include: laminated arches, purlins, insulation, siding and roofing; as well as win dows, doors [or overhead doors], ridge vents and eve flaps - and all needed hardware. CALL TODAY, FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION Rigidply Rafters offer a complete line of building materials that have given proven performance for all types of buildings. Contact us for dependable service on all your Lancaster Farming. Saturday, June 12.1976 week later as the soil had become brittle and cracked. Many plants were missing in this part of the field, but the surviving ones looked as though they’d make it as long as Mother Nature would cooperate once in a while with a shower. flooding. Hummer planted storm looks healthy enough, the first of his soybeans on Considering the force bf die the 10th of May, admitting storm which hit some potato that some of the cool weeks fields, the destruction here is we’ve had did not do them comparatively minor, much good. “They were a Yocum said the crop at his little slow anyway,” he farm was “really chopped remarked, “when the rain up” but that it’s doubtful it finished it off it was the would have a significant deciding factor to replant.” impact on yields. He He completed that task predicted there would be a Thursday afternoon. Of his delay in the potato crop’s total of 55 acres of soybeans, development. Hummer, who he re-planted about half, grows 115 acres of potatoes, Both he and Yocum stressed agreed with Yocum in that the importance of having his crop weathered the storm soybeans in as soon as satisfactorily but was not possible now since potential certain as to how yields yields of the crop drop would be affected. “I’ve substantially after June experienced anything POTATOES like it,” he said. He began The potato crop in regions .. „ . - which were not hit by the I Continued on Page 111- 17
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