A22—Lancaster Famdai, Saturday, March 8,1980
Record com crop leads Pennsylvania output
HARRISBURG -
Production of the four small
grains, wheat, rye, oats and
barley slightly declined to
32,411,000 bushels from the
1978 production level of
32,492,000.
The 1979 output was down
five percent from the 1977
total.
Sorghum estimates begin
m 1979 with 7000 acres
harvested for gram and a
total production of 523,000
bushels, for a value of
31,208,000.
The Keystone state wit
nessed another record high
com crop in 1979, two per
cent over last year’s record
crop. Production totaled
115.4 million bushels from
slightly more than 1.2
million acres harvested for
gram.
Yield was estimated at 95
bushels per acre, the same
yield as the preceeding year.
Com for grain value was
$340.5 million. Com for
silage areage harvested at
Part-time Farmers
seminar to be held
LANCASTER - A Part
time Fanner’s Seminar will
be held Saturday, March 15,
9:00 a.m. at the Farm and
Home Center.
Since employment off the'
farm does not permit atten
dance at many of the regular
educational events, the Lan
caster Extension staff has
prepared a program of
special interest to both part
time farmers and rural non
farm residents who own just
a few head of livestock or
poultry or own just a few
acres of land.
A general session will lead
off the morning with estate
planning, pest control
pasture management and
rural living.
Following the general ses
sion, there will be two 45-
mmute workshops. Each
workshop will be run twice,
so that participants will have
the opportunity to select a
total of two areas of interest.
Workshops to be held are
Crops and Soils, Dairy and
Goats, Livestock, and
Poultry and Rabbits.
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410,000 acres, yield at 15.0
tons, resulted in total
production of 6,150,000 tons.
Tobacco production
declined to 22.1 million
pounds compared to last
year’s 25.2 million pounds.
Yield decreased to 1700
pounds per acre, 240 pounds
less than 1978 yield. Har
vested acres remained the
same as the 1978 crop at
13,000 acres.
Soybeans for beans
production increased to
2,624,000 bushels, a 34 per
cent increase over last
year’s production of 1,953,000
bushels. This increase in
production was due mainly
to an increase in harvested
acreage.
Yield increased again this
year to 32.0 bushes per acre,
however, this is only a 0.3
bushel increase over the 1978
yield. Total crop value in
creased to almost $15.0
million from the previous
year’s value of $12.9 million.
Registration may be
made with the form below,
or by calling the Lancaster
Extension Office (717) 394-
6851.
PRE-REGISTRATION
Part-Time Farmers Seminar
NAME
PHONE NO
ADDRESS
Please indicate the two work
shops that you wish to attend
□ #1) Crops and Soils
CH #2) Dairy and Goats
□ #3) Livestock
D #4) Poultry and Rabbits
Please return to Agricultural
Extension Service 1383
Arcadia Road Room 1 Lan
caster PA 17601 Pre
registration can also be made
by calling 394 6851
1278 Loop Rd.
Lancaster, Pa. 17604
717-397-3721
All hay showed an in
creased from last year in
area harvested to 1.96
million acres. Yield declined
to 2.19 tons per acre
resulting in total production
of 4.29 million tons. At $53.50
per ton, the total crop value
decreased 14 percent to
$229.7 million.
Production of alfalfa hay
totaled 2.3 million tons from
850,000 acres while
production of all other hay
totaled 2.0 million tons
harvested from 1.1 million
acres.
Pennsylvania tanners
harvested 8000 acres of red
clover seed this year. The
1979 crop of 560,000 pounds is
down 38 percent from the
900,000 pounds produced last
year. Yield decreased seven
percent to 70 pounds per
acre.
Total value of production
is |336,000 compared with
$585,000 last year.
Mushroom production
totaled 213.8 million pounds
for the crop year ending
June 30, 1979, 3 percent
below the previous year’s
crop. This year’s total crop
value was $152.9 million.
Apple production in 1979
totaled 505 million pounds,
The case
of Farmer Jones
and the 5$ orange.
Farmer Jones had finished his shopping
in town. Returning along Main Street with
two dusty nickels in his overalls pocket, his
eye caught a hand-scrawled sidewalk sign:
“ORANGES ON SALE - 50 EACH!”
Feeling thirsty, it being a sizzling hot day,
Farmer Jones plucked an orange from the
makeshift stand... paid his nickel and
continued whistling on his way.
As his fingernail bit into the rind,
Farmer Jones’ mouth watered at the succulent
treat within. But at the very first taste his
mouth turned dry. The orange was sour and
flat. He suddenly didn’t
like whistling again.
Too late for he
was down to his last sj£
he remembered
Ben’s Country Store.
Ben’s oranges were the
best in town. Plump,
juicy, fresh. He’d built
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up 26 percent trom a year
ago. With a two percent
higher unit price from last
year’s nine cents per pound,
value of production at $46.0
million was up 29 percent
from a year ago.
Total pioduction of all
pears in 1979 was 2,800 tons,
15 percent below last year’s
crop and 40 percent less than
the 1977 crop. Value of
utilized production totaled
$823,000.
Tart cherry production
(6.3 million pounds) in
creased two percent from
the previous year. A record
pnee of 49.6 cents per pound
resulted in a record crop
value of $3.1 million.
The 1979 sweet cherry crop
also recorded a record high
value of $1,066,000;
production totaled 950 tons.
Pennsylvania’s peach crop
totaled 90 million pounds for
1979. This year’s crop was up
6 percent from 1978. The
total crop value at $13.3
million was slightly below
last year’s record.
Total production of grapes
for 1979 was 55,500 tons. The
total value of this year’s crop
was $12.1 million, this was 10
percent below the previous
year, but 77 percent greater
than the crop value of 1977.
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A total of 1000 acres of year- The 1979 production of
strawberries were harvested 33,000 cwt. resulted in a total
m 1979. Yield at 33 cwt. per crop value of $2.2 million,
acre increased by seven Maple syrup production
percent from the previous totaled 57,000 gallons with a
year. The increased acreage total value of $775,000. This
harvested along with a compares with 1978
higher yield produced an 18 production of 42,000 gallons
percent larger crop than last and a value of $504,000.
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