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Lancaster Stockyards, Inc.,
there were actually over 2000
cattle sold, according to his
Lancaster Stockyard official
report.
“There were heavy
receipts of cattle all over the
country,” he noted. “I think
jt was probably due to
president Carter’s com
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“Then the futures market
reacted, and people just
thought that they better
unload their cattle,” he
continued. “I’d say a good
one third of the cattle were
what I call panic cattle. They
wouldn’t have been there if it
wouldn’t have been for that.
McCoy went on to say that
he thought the cattle market
for the next three to four
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question mark.
“But from around mid-
July on, especially when we
get in the third quarter, I’m
pretty bullish,” he
remarked. “There is a
record low number in the
national cattle herd.”
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on the significance of the
meat imports, McCoy stated
that he thought such an
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“The market should be in
good shape,” he observed,
“and we need good markets.
The cattle markets have
been hurting.”
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Set-aside
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shows that 92 farmers signed
up in Lancaster County. This
figure is five per cent of the
eligible farms. In Lebanon
County 50 farmers signed up
for eight per cent of those
eligible; in Chester County,
239 signed for 26 per cent of
those eligible; Berks, 251 tor
19 per cent of those eligible;
in Adams, 597 signed up for
53 per cent of those eligible;
and in Dauphin, 242 farms
for 30 per cent of those
eligible.
Participation in the set
aside is voluntary. However,
non-participants are not
eligible for price support
loans, disaster payments, or
deficiency (target price)
payments. While farmers
need to sign up and comply
with set-aside provisions to
receive program benefits,
they will not be held to the
intentions they provide ASCS
during the signup period.
Final figure will be available
after fanners have certified
their acreage later in the
year.
Sign up began March 1 and
ran through May 31.
However, those farms which
county officers could not
accommodate by May 31
were asked to sign a register
and had until June 15 to
complete enrollment.
Final sign up figures will
be issued June 20.
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ag value
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in 1977 compares with 242,000 head counted in 1976 and
246,000 head in 1975.
Hay harvesters m the Garden Spot averaged 3.06 tons
per acre last year, a good jump from the 2.77 figure
recorded a year earlier. Potato yields, on the other hand,
dropped from 284 hundredweights per acre in 1976 to 235
hundredweights last year. Acreage dropped from 1770 in
1976 to 1590 last year. The value of vegetables increased
by over a million dollars. With 3530 acres in production,
the 1977 value was $3,694,000. In 1976 the respective figures
were 2655 acres and $2,560,000. Fruit'production recorded
a slight increase. No acreage figures are available, but
the value of fruits produced in the Garden Spot last year
was $1,077,000, which compares with $1,072,000 for 1976.
All of the small grain crops except oats have lost some
ground during the past several years in both acres and
dollar value. Wheat took the biggest licking as its value
plummeted from more than $6 million in 1974 to $2,373,830
in 1977. Acreage for wheat, meanwhile, has dropped by
nearly 7000 acres during the past two years, and by 4250
acres since a year ago. Average yields were 42 bushels per
acre in 1974, compared to 35.7 and 35.4 in 1975 and 1976,
respectively. For 1977 the average yield was 41 bushels.
The barely crop has gone downhill in average yields;
(61 bushels per acre in 1974 to 56.2 in 1975 49.9 in 1976 and
58.0 in 1977) while planted acreage has dropped by 2200
acres since last year. The crop’s value was pegged at
$2,230,000 in 1974; $1,464,700 m 1975, $1,546,700 in 1976 and
$1,426,800 a year ago.
Oats, with 3500 acres planted last year, and an average
yield of 56 bushels per acre, was valued at $284,300. That
compares with a value of $265,000 in 1975 and $258,000 in
1976. Planted acreage has increased by 500 since last year.
Lancaster County, which ranks as the number one non
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farms, according to the Crop and Livestock Report.
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