Good harvests reported HARRISBURG Pennsylvania’s 1976 corn for grain crop is still expected to produce 100,320,000 bushels on conditions November 1, according to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Service. EASTLAND HYBRID FIELD CORN Available Now! CHECK WITH YOUR NEAREST DEALER . GEORGE ANTHONY & SONS GALEN R. FETZER Straustown, PA Lewisburg. Penna. 215-488-6211 717-523-1482 JOSEPH LAYERS Rising Sun, Maryland 301-658-4381 BAUMGARTNER ENTERPRISES Kunkletown, Penna, 717-629-0471 ELMER K.BEILER Lancaster. Pa 717-392-9579 JOHN BLAH Robesonia, Penna 215-693-3206 THEODORE BLEW Remington, NI 201-782-9618 LUTHER BITTNER Catawissa, Penna 717-799-5502 LEON 6. BRODT Ackermanville, Penna 215-588-3264 IVAN BURKHOLDER Danville, Penna 717-437-2212 JACOB BURKHOLDER Denver, Penna 215-267 6692 CHRIST ESH Honeybrook, Penna 215 942-2657 SEEM DEALERSHIPS AVAILABLE IN SELECTED AREAS This production figure would exceed last year by 13 per cent, due mostly to the prospective yield of 88 bushels per acre. Thus far, weather has not favored harvest, but farm operators “Developed & Produced In Penna. for \ Penna. Growing Conditions" \ NORMAN T. DEMPSEY Newark, Delaware 302-239-5351 W. H. DREIBELBIS & SONS Rt 1, Shoemakersville, PA 215-562-4585 GORDON FLICKINGER Union Bridge, MD 301-775-7394 HARVEY J.FRISTOE Forest Hill, Md 301-879-3341 ROBERT GEIGER Germanville, Penna 215-767-2490 DAVID C. COVER 1 utherville Md 301-252-3235 PAULHANNUM Chester Springs, Pa 215 363-7655 HARLEYSVILLE MILL Harleysville. PA 215-256-9201 cDAhim IU uniuv NORTHAMPTON FRANKLIN HE!NY FARM BUREAU Tatamy PA -'ib-Zb/dUBS 215-258-2871 R. WAYNE JONES PAUL F REIDENHOUR JR. Carlisle, Penna Hamburg Penna 717-249 3290 215 562-7667 SEED FARMS - DIV. OF SEEDWAY, INC. - RD. 1 EMMAUS, PA. 18049 CALL (215) 965-5072 or (215) 967-4131 still expect an excellent crop. Potato production is forecast at 7.1 million hundredweight, five per cent above the 1975 crop m Pennsylvania. Acres for harvest are off 1,000 from • *••••« / order 7 / ROW! I / R m. UTIOf "ZE i ! PHILLIP JOHNSON Goshen, N.Y 914-651-7021 W. DAVID KELLER Hummelstown, Penna 717-566-0529 LEHMAN’S FEED MILL York Springs, PA 717-528-4151 EMORY MARTIN Waynesboro, Penna 215-762-2088 WILLIAM A. MACKIE Elkton Md 301-398-3356 MELVIN MAST Oxford Pa. 215-932-4296 CLYDE MEYER Annviile Pa. 717-867-2863 MONTGOMERY-BUCKS FARM BUREAU Souderton, PA 215-723-4355 JOHN 0. RINEERJR Mountville Penna 717-299-4604 WILSON H. ROHRBACH Mertztown, Penna 215-682-2231 JAMES PAUCH Frenchtown, New Jersey 201-996-4357 JOSEPH H. SCHOTT Lebanon. Penna 717-273-3506 JOHN SCHWARTZ Erwmna, Penna 215-294-9377 GLENN SHAFFER Bloomsburg, PA 717-784-6799 WILLIAM STAHL Loysville, Penna. 717-789-3244 SAMUELSTOLTZFUS Fleetwood, Penna. 215-944-7808 WILLIAM VANTOL Tamaqua, Penna. 717-386-4853 TYRONE WEHRY Pitman, Penna 717 648-9007 MARVIN WRIGLEY Cochranville Penna 215 869 9267 DAVIDS. ZIMMERMAN Quarryville, Penna 717-786 7960 last year, but expected yield of 255 hundredweight per acre is 20 hundredweight above a year ago. Pennsylvania’s tobacco production is forecast at 23.1 million pounds, 17 per cent increase from last year, unchanged from last mon th’s forecast. Production of summer cabbage for fresh market from the forecasted 1600 acres for harvest is expected to total 368,000 hun dredweight. Yield per acre is forecast at 230 hun dredweight for 1976. These Milk prices projected BALTIMORE, Md. Economists at Maryland Cooperative Milk Producers, here, have projected milk prices for the coming months. All prices quoted below are per hun dredweight, FOB Baltimore, 3.5 per cent butterfat. The cooperative sees the Minnesota-Wisconsin manufacturer’s price series as remaining at its .present level of $8.06 through March of next year. The average for 1976 is expected to be $8.45, which compares with $7.62 for last year’s average, and $7.06 for the 1974 tally. The Class I price'average for the year is pegged at $11.38 by MCMP economists. That’s up from $10.04 for both 1975 and 1974. The November price, which has already been announced, is $11.24. Next month it is expected to drop by 20 cents, followed by an additional 20 cent drop in January. The $10.84 price is expected to hold its own through March. Class II prices are Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 20,1976 figures are equal to last year’s acreage, yield and production. Total value of the 1976 crop is forecast at $1,427,000, down 10 per cent from the 1975 crop value of $1,568,000. Pennsylvania’s sweet com acreage for harvest for fresh market is forecast at 11,900, up seven per cent from 1975 levels. Yield of sweet com is forecast at 80 hundredweight per acre, equal to the 1975 yield, and production is expected to total 952,000 hundredweight up seven per cent from the 1975 crop.- Total value for this year’s sweet com is forecast at $8,092,000, an increase of 10 per cent from last year. predicted to be $8.14 for the remainder of this year, then dropping to $B.ll and $B.lO, respectively, for the first two months of 1977. The March price has been pegged at $8.03. The average Class II price for 1976 is likely to end up at $8.47, which compares with $7.64 for all of last year and $6.83 for the year before. The percentage of utilization for Class I and Class II milk is expected to shift by two or three per centage points, with the plus shift going to the Class II side. The drop will occur in December, after which it will remain fairly stable or increase slightly. This will cause the blend price for the month to dip below the $lO.OO mark, where it is likely to remain for the first few months of 1977. Base milk will be paid $10.38 per hundredweight this month, according to MCMP figuring. That compares with $10.13 for December, $9.98 for Jan. ‘77, $10.02 for Feb. ‘77, and $9.81 United States forecasts for com as of November 1 show production at a record 6,063 million bushels, up three per cent (198 million bushels) from the October 1 forecast, and up five per cent from the 1975 crop. United States’ production of com, sorgum, oats and barley is forecast at 188 million metric tons as of November 1, up three per cent from last year. Production of U.S. tobacco is expected to be 2,071 million pounds, up 21 million pounds from October 1, but five per cent below the previous year’s crop. Flue cured production is down eight per cent and the barley crop is down one per cent from last year. for March of 1977. The average price for base milk this year is estimated to fall in at around $10.48. A year ago it averaged $9.34, and in 1974 it was $9.05. Prices for surplus milk are likely to drop to $8.29 for last month (compared to $8.49 for September deliveries) and will drop to $8.09 this month, the MCMP figures show. January of 1977 will see another five-cent dip, followed by a drop of a penny the following month, and a low of $7.96 in March of 1377. The average price paid for surplus milk in 1976 is estimated to be $8.42. In 1975 it was $7.59, and the year before it was $6.78. BASIS OF PROJECTIONS 1. That the current support price for Cheddar cheese will remain in effect through March 1977 but that the Minnesota- Wisconsin price will fall below support level by 20 cents-cwt beginning in November 1978. 2. That Federal Order No. 4 milk deliveries for the fourth quarter of 1976 and the first quarter of 1977 will reflect a normal seasonal pattern from September 1976 levels. 3. That Federal Order No. 4 Class I sales will continue through March 1977 at September level adjusted for normal seasonal sales patterns and calendar composition. 4. That there will be no further abnormally large transfers of Federal Order No. 2 producers to the Federal Order No. 4 market. USDA okays meat imports WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U. S. Department of Agriculture is adding the Republic of China - Taiwan - to the list of countries eligible to ship meat to the United States, effective Dec. 5, 1976. Officials of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said this amendment of federal meat inspection regulations is based on Taiwan having a meat in spection system with standards equal to those of the U. S. meat inspection program. This deter mination followed a point-by point examination of Taiwan’s meat inspection laws and regulations, as well as on-site reviews of im spection procedures. 89