# Wheat harvest nearing end
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siad his big complaint about
the wheat was how tough it
was due to the high moisture
h vel.
“The qua l ity isn’t bad,” he
stated, “but there is some
real high moisture, one field
was 13.8 per cent, and the
rest were 14 per cent and
up.”
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SOUTEASTERN PA
REGIONAL MANAGER
George F DeLong
225 West Woods Drive
Lititz, PA 17543
Phone 717 626 0261
Northwestern Lancaster Co
Earlß Ginder
RD2, Manhetm, PA 17545
Phone 717 665 3126
Eastern Lancaster Co
Aldus R King
Melvin Herr RDI, Box 67A
RD2, New Holland, PA 17557 Atglen, PA 19310
Phone 717 354 4977 Phone 215 593-5952
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He added that there was
some Winter freeze in the
area and fanners had some
trouble with grassy fields.
He thought wheatgrowers
were averaging 30 to 40
bushels per acre, stating
that some fields were giving
good yields and some were
not.
SILO HEAT LOSS
SILO HEATING CAUSES SEVERE ECONOMIC LOSSES IN CORN-SILAGE,
GRASS-SILAGE, HAYLAGE AND HIGH MOISTURE CORN.
WHEN DO THESE LOSSES HAPPEN 7
IMMEDIATELY AFTER FILLING THE SILO THE
FIRST 3 TO 7 DAYS ARE MOST CRITICAL DURING
WHICH TIME THE HEATING REACHES ITS PEAK
WHAT CAUSES THIS HEATING 7
OXIDATION FROM THE AIR THAT IS BLOWN INTO
THE SILAGE AND TRAPPED DURING FILLING AND
THE OXYGEN CONTAINED IN THE PLANT THE
DRIER THE SILAGE THE COARSER (AND HARDERJ
IT CHOPS THE POORER IT PACKS, THE MORE AIR
IS TRAPPED, AND THE HOTTER' IT GETS
WHY 7
OXYGEN IS WHAT CAUSES ANY FOOD TO SPOIL
AND IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE SILAGE
BEFORE PRESERVATION CAN TAKE PLACE IN THE
NORMAL PROCESS OF ELIMINATION A CHEMICAL
REACTION OCCURS IN WHICH OXYGEN COMBINES
WITH READILY AVAILABLE STARCHES AND
SUGARS TO LITERALLY BURN ITSELF OUT
DOES OXYGEN FREE SEALED STORAGE PREVENT
THIS 7
OXYGEN FREE STORAGE IS NOT OXYGEN FREE
UNTIL AFTER THIS OXIDATION PERIOD IS OVER
COMMON SENSE TELLS YOU THAT JUST AS MUCH
AIR IS TRAPPED DURING THE FILLING PROCESS
REGARDLESS OF TYPE OF STORAGE THE SAME
THING HAPPENS AS EXPLAINED ABOVE THE
DIFFERENCE IS THAT ONCE THE FILLER OPENING
IS CLOSED AND THE SILO IS ACTUALLY SEALED,
NO ADDITIONAL AIR CAN ENTER SURFACE
SPOILAGE AND SILO LEAKAGE IS NOT A PROBLEM
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT YOUR LOCAL AGRI-KING DIALER
From York County came
the reports that the wheat
too was of good quality but of
high moisture content. One
farmer commented that he
wasn’t sure that the wheat
matured like it should have,
and estimated an average of
35 bushels per acre in that
county.
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Southwestern Lancaster Co
Ben Greenawalt
RD2, Conestoga, PA 17516
Phone 717 872-5686
Southern Lancaster Co
Henry DeLong, Jr.
RD2, Box 69
Peach Bottom, PA 17563
Phone 717-548-3471
Southeastern PA
The wheat is estimated
close to 60 per cent har
vested m York County and
farmers added that where
the crop is thin, the timothy
is coming up through and
causing problems. Farmers
appreciated the sunny
weather allowing them to get
the harvesting done, but
complamed of the high
humidity telling that that did
not help the high moisture
content.
THIS COMBINATION OF ANTI-OXIDANTS AND
ENZYMES RESULTS IN A MUCH GREATER
‘PRESERVATIVE EFFECT
THEY ABSORB THE ATMOSPHERIC AND
HYDROLYTIC OXYGEN ENERGY IN THE SILAGE
TO PREVENT THE INITIAL OXIDATION WHICH
CAUSES THE HEATING AND THE LOSSES
THEY ALSO UTILIZE MOISTURE AVAILABLE IN
THE SILAGE TO HELP SYNTHESIZE MORE
SOLUBLE SUGARS WHICH HELP PRODUCE A
HIGH QUALITY. SWEET SMELLING SILAGE WITH
EXCEPTIONAL PA,
BY REDUCING THE LEVEL OF OXIDATION.
TEMPERATURE OF THE SILAGE IS MAINTAINED
IN A RANGE OF 100 TO 110 DEGREES
THIS IS THE IDEAL TEMPERATURE FOR FER
MENTATION THIS RESULTS IN A
FLOWER ACIDITY] AND A SILAGE OF VERY’
HIGH QUALITY
Berks Co
Paul D. Deßoard
Longview Road RD3
Boyertown, PA 19512
Phone 215 689-5365
Chester Co
William Windle
RDl.Atglen, PA 19310
Phone 215 593 6143
Northeast Berks Co
Roger Heller
RDI, Robesonia, PA
Phone 215 693 6160
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From the Chester County
farmers came the reports of
the same problems and
conditions-the quality of the
wheat is good but the
moisture is high. There were
also a few reports of some
scab reported in different
fields.
There the moisture seems
to range from about 14 to 16
per cent. The area farmers
estimated that about 75 to 80
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ANTI-OXIDENTS USED
OFFQODITEMS IN
SILO-KING ALSO
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Lebanon Co.
Marvin Meyer
RD2, Box 157
Annville, PA 17003
Phone 717-867-1445
SOUTH CENTRAL PA
REGIONAL MANAGER
EarlH Moyer
RDS, Box 277
Hagerstown MD 21740
Phone 301-739 5199
per cent of the crop is
already harvested with the
rest soon to be done.
A good estimate of the
yield in the Chester County
area ranged from 25 to 50
bushels, with more on the
low than the high side, as one
man put it.
The prices of wheat, well,
they’re better than last year,
bust still nothing to write
home about, was the way one
man put it. Most of the
farmers contacted told of
getting anywhere from $3.20
to $3.40 per bushel for their
wheat.
But one element of the
wheat harvest and its effect
will have to wait to be seen
next Winter. Farmers
thought that there was less
wheat planted this year and
that that was planted made
less straw than would be in a
normal year in many areas
of Pa. Remembering how
high prices of straw were
over the past Winter, far
mers speculated that this
coming year straw might be
the item to have on the
Winter market, with good
straw commanding a high
price on the auction block.
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