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lecrease in value and
lumbers was registered for
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the sheep industry, here, but
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Fertile farm land in Lancaster County between Manheim and Utitz
before. The numbers for
cattle and calves was up
significantly, but lower
prices caused a sharp drop in
value down to $81,857,800
from the $95,647,000 recorded
the year-before.
The number of farms for
1975 was pegged at 5865,
down from the 6100
registered in 1974.
On the crops side of the
ledger, Lancaster County
checked in first for barley,
com, alfalfa, and tobacco.
Production per acre was up
for only silage com and
potatoes, while other crops
dropped. The County was
second for production of
wheat and all types of hay.
Following Lancaster in
milk production are, in or
der: Bradford County,
Franklin County, Berks
County, Chester,
Susquehanna, Crawford, and
Lebanon.
On a state-wide summary
basis, small grain acreage
was lower and yields were
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Phone (717) 626-1151 501 E. Woods Drive, Lititz, PA. 17543
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Lancaster Farming, Saturda;
Lancaster Farming Photo by Dieter Kneg
off, largely due to un
favorable weather. Hay
production, however, in
creased over the previous
year. Com production, state
wide, was also up over 1974.
Soybean production was up
in spite of fewer acres. The
plantings of potatoes, state
wide, were the lowest on
record a mere 29,000
acres. Yields were up five
hundredweights per acre
over the year before, but this
still left production seven per
cent below 1974.
Production for both fruits
and vegetables was up, and
the quality was described as
high by the Crop Reporting
Service.
Anyone wishing to have
more details on Penn
sylvania’s crops may con
tact the Crop Reporting
Sept 11,19:
Service at 2301 North
Cameron Street in
Harrisburg and ask for the
Annual Summary Report.
Of the total grain used by
the animal industries during
the 1972-73 feed year, the
following percentages were
fed to each class of animal:
dairy cattle, 11.7; cattle on
feed, 25.1; other beef cattle,
6.0; swine, 29.0; poultry, 17.0
and other livestock. 11.2.
From 1970 through 1973,
the cash receipts from all
U.S. farms were 56 percent
for livestock and livestock
products and 44 percent for
crops. This has been about
the same for the last 30
years. So, the animal in
dustries are a major and
important source of income
to the farmer.
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