Com forecast at record high,
Oats lowest since 1881
of U.S. com for
gram is forecast at a record
6553 million bushels, 14
percent above the previous
record set in 1975, Paul H.
Keeney, chairman of the
Berks County Agricultural
Stabilization and Con
servation Committee
reported.
Mr. Keeney said the 1976
com yield is estimated at
90.5 bushels per acre, also
higher than recent years.
The per acre yield was 86.2
bushels last year and 71.4
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bushels?
bushels in 1974, according to
USDA’s Statistical Repor
ting Service (SRS).
Production of oats is
forecast at 499 million
bushels, 24 percent less than
1975 and the lowest
production since 1881. yield
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is expected to average 38.2
bushels per acre, down
almost 10 bushels from 1975
and 8.3 bushels below 1974.
Production of all types of
wheat will be about 2040
million bushels, 4 percent
less than last year’s record
high 2134 million bushels, but
14 percent above the 1974
crop. Winter wheat
production is forecast at 1530
million bushels, 7 percent
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Millions of bushels of corn,
wheat, oats, fruits, other foods.
All the way from production
on the farm to storage or
processing in farmer
cooperatives. We’re the Federal
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Credit Associations.
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of farmers
and growers.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 31,1976—15
below the record 1975 crop
but otherwise the largest of
record and 10 percent above
the 1974 crop.
Barley production will be
about 311 million bushels for
1976. This is 19 percent less
than the 1975 outturn but 2
percent more than the 1974
crop.
The soybean crop was in
good condition nationwide by
July 1, but many fields in the
North Central states needed
rain soon. Almost 75 percent
of the nations’ soybean crop
was planted by the beginning
of June.
Portraits
available
OLIVIA, Mum. Joe
Kaliff, nationally known
caricaturist, will be making
a three day appearance at
Cornland, USA, to be held
here August 20, 21, and 22.
Kaliff has sketched
thousands of famous per
sonalities such as Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Albert Ein
stein, Marilyn Monroe, Bob
Hope, and Frank Sinatra.
Besides sketching most of
the great notables of our
time, Kaliff has also sket
ched for over a hundred
national corporations, and
has his own nationally
syndicated Broadway
column.
Joe Kaliff will be one of 180
commercial exhibits at
Comland, USA, one of the
larger working ag shows in
the Upper Midwest. Also
featured at Comland, USA
this year is the Trojan ‘sooo’
Tractor Pull, The Minnesota
State Championship Fiddle
Contest, The Marilyn Sellars
Show, Patchwork Square,
aerial spraying and crop
seeding demonstrations,
Barbershop Bonanza, com
management plots, and
much more.
All demonstration and
entertainment events are
free. Parking is $3.00 per
car.
Beef cattle
counted
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania cattle feeders had
62.000 cattle and calves on
feed for the slaughter
market on July 1, 1976, ac
cording to the Crop
Reporting Service. This was
two per cent more than a
year earlier.
Marketing of fed cattle
during the April-June
quarter at 30,000 head, was
down 12 per cent from the
same quarter a year ago.
Placements of cattle and
calves on feed during the
April-June quarter totaled
18.000 head, down 22 per cent
from a year ago.
Expected marketings of
fed cattle, if realized, during
the July-September quarter
at 36,000, would be nine per
cent or 3,000 head more than
were marketed during the
same period in 1975.
Cattle and calves on feed
for slaughter market on Ji ’y
1, 1976, in the 23 ma]or
feeding states total -'d
10,036,000 head. This is 17 per
cent more than a year ago.
Placements of cattle and
calves in the 23 states
during the April-June 1976
quarter totaled 5,599,000
head, up one per cent from
1975.
Marketings of fed c
for slaughter during
quarter totaled 5,93 r
head, up 18 per cent from
same quarter in 1975
pected marketings in »
major feeding state
July-September 1976 ql
are estimated at 5,Cf