Pa. stored grain up 5 per cent
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HARRISBURG - Total
stocks of com, oats, barley,
and wheat stored in Penn
sylvania on June 1 were 51 7
million bushels, five per cent
more than a year ago, ac
cording to Pennsylvania
Agriculture Secretary Kent
D Shelhamer
Shelhamer said a survey
by the Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service indicated
farm stocks, at 45.8 million,
were up nine per cent
Pennsylvania off-farm
holdings of 5 9 million were
down 19 per cent.
Total corn in storage at
42 5 million bushels was up
three per cent. Off-farm
stocks of 3 0 million were
about 1.9 million bushels
THE SYSTEM
below last year, but the farm
holdings of 39 5 million, up
3 3 million bushels, were
more than offsetting the
decrease in off-farm stocks
Wheat stocks at 2 9 million
bushels were up 14 per cent
Farm stocks rose from
630,000 bushels lo 713,000
bushels wile off-farm
holduigs were 2.1 million
bushels compared to 1.9
million bushels in 1977
Barley stocks at 1.0 million
bushels were up 28 per cent.
Farm holdmgs of 813,000
bushels were up 16 per cent
from a year ago, while the
232,000 bushels in off-farm
storage was 102 per cent
above the 115,000 bushels of
last year.
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The 5 3 million bushels of
oats on hand was 11 per cent
more than last year Farm
holdings of 4.8 million
bushels were 11 per cent
over the 4.3 million bushels a
year ago, and off-farm
stocks at 459,000 bushels is 16
per cent more than last
year’s 397,000 bushels
Corn in all storage
positions in the U.S. on June
1, 1978 totaled 2.80 billion
bushels, 18 per cent above a
year earlier, 50 per cent
above two years earlier, and
the largest June 1 stocks in
more than 15 years. Farm
stocks totaled 181 billion
bushels and off-farm stocks
were 989 million bushels.
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storage positions 'during
April and May was 104
billion bushels, up 12 per
cent from the same period of
1977.
Old crop oat stocks in
storage on June 1, 1978
totaled 309 million bushels,
88 per cent above the low
June 1,1977 stocks and 51 per
cent above the June 1, 1976
stocks. Farm stocks totaled
256 million bushels and were
nearly double the June 1,
1977 farm stocks. Off-farm
stocks at 53 4 million bushels
were up 50 per cent from last
year. Disappearance from
all storage positions during
April and May 1978 was 108
million bushels, up 14 per
cent from the 94.1 million
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 8,1978
bushels for the same period
last year.
Old crop barley stocks in
storage in all positions on
June 1, 1978 totaled 172
million bushels, up 37 per
cent from last year and up 34
per cent from June 1, 1976
Farm stocks totaled 104
million bushels, nearly
double last year while off
farm stocks were 67.6
million bushels, down eight
per cent from last year
Disappearance from all
storage positions during
April-May, 1978 was 65 5
million bushels, up five per
cent from the comparable
period in 1977.
All wheat (old crop) stored
in all pos/ions on June 1,
1978 totaled 1.17 billion
bushels, six per cent more
than a year ago when stocks
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were at the level of 1.11
billion bushels, and 77 per
cent greater than two year
ago This is the largest June
1 stocks since 1963. Farm
stocks totaled 492 million
bushels and off-farm storage
was 682 million bushels.
Apnl-May disappearance
this year totaled 351 million
bushels compared with 277
millions bushels last year.
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