—Lancaster Farming, Satnrday, November 4,1973
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Crops watched closely by ‘eyes’ in space
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
impact of weather upon
major food crops throughout
the world can be monitored,
and future crop yields
estimated with high ac
curacy, as the result of a
four-year, cooperative ex
periment conducted by three
government agencies, a
team of scientists from the
National Oceanic and At
mospheric Administration
(NOAA) has reported.
The ' scientists, from
NOAA’s Environmental
Data and Information
Service, made their report
last week at an international
symposium evaluating
Schuylkill Co, DHIA reported
TAMAQUA - The herd of
William R. Daubert, Pine
Grove 83, had the highest
milkfat in Schuylkill County
for the month of September,
1978, according to in
formation released by Penn
State and J. Allan Shoener,
county agent.
With 69 cows on test, he
averaged 2.00 pounds of
milkfat per day and 54.3
pounds of mild per cow per
day.
Second for the month was
Millbr & Rex, Inc. Andreas
Rl, who, with 34.5 cows on
test, averaged 50.1 pounds of
milk per cow per day and
1.94 pounds of milkfat per
day.
Third was Emmett W.
Rhein, Pine Grove R 3;
fourth was Heisler Brothers,
Tamaqua Rl; and fifth was
Carl and Dale Heisler,
Tamaqua Rl.
Seventy cows finished
lactation records with 600
pounds of milkfat for Sep
tember. The records are
progress of the Large Area
Crop Inventory Experiment
(LACIE) held at the Lyndon
B. Johnson Space Center in
Houston, Tex. LACIE is
being conducted jointly by
NOAA, NASA, and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
The experiment was an
attempt to produce
estimates of total wheat
production by country from
information obtained
through the Landsat satellite
and a global meter ological
network. Satellite imagery
permits estimation of the
proportion of cropland in a
country devoted to growing
wheat, while the weather
based on 305 days or less,
two times actual production.
Highest was Miller and
Rex, Inc., with their cow
Lucy, who-had 23,552 pounds
of milk and 902 pounds of
milkfat. Second was Emmet
Land-use
BIGLERVILLE Adams
Countians will have the
opportunity next week to air
their views and listen to
others’ opinioins regarding
agricultural zoning and land
use planning. The meeting
which will focus on these
subjects is a public affairs
activity that is scheduled to
get underway at 7:30 p.m.,
November 8, in the Penn
State Fruit Research
Laboratory, Biglerville.
Cooperative Extension
Service planning specialist
Stanley Lembech and
resource development
agent, John Munson, will be
joined by Ralph McGregor,
York County farmer and
planning commission
data is used to estimate crop
growth state, vigor, and
potential yield.
Jerry D. Hill, a senior
member of NOAA’s LACIE
team, reported the team has
developed special computer
models to estimate wheat
yield, using monthly
precipitation and tem
perature data to assess crop
yield potential.
Modelling accuracy, he
said, is illustrated by the
1977 wheat yield and
production estimates for the
Soviet Union. LACIE
scientists estimated total
wheat production would be
about 91.4 million metric
tons, close to the USSR
W. Rhein’s Love, with 12,476
pounds of milk and 839
pounds of milkfat. Heisler
Brothers’ Dixie was third.
She had 19,744 pounds of
milk and 811 pounds of
milkfat.
meeting set
member to describe
measures for preserving
land in agriculture as
operating in nearby states
and counties. Problems and
possibilities for the different
.measures will be discussed.
Membership
urged
YORK - Farmers in the „
York County area are in
vited to join the York County
Farmers Association,
uniting with 2.8 million
members nationwide.
Those interested in more
information about the group,
can contact F. H. Hut
schenreuter, Box 75, Route 2,
Airville. Pa. 17302.
reports of 92 million metric weather data to the solution
tons released at the end-of of a variety of critical
the year. - national problems. The
According to Hill, yield NOAA team already has
estimation capability applied its modelling
developed by NOAA capability experimentally to
scientists for the LACIE the problem of allocation of
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another application of t heating season.
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Co-authors of the paper
presented by Hill at the
LACES seminar were Dr.
Norton D. Strammen, Chief
of the EDIS Climatic Impact
Assessment Division, and
Malcolm Reid, Chief of the
Climatic Assessment
Branch.