632- MLwttrtwFCTiat, SaMijf, May 10,1! State grain HARRISBURG - Total stocks of wheat, corn, oats, barley, sorghum and rye in Pennsylvania on April 1, at 75.7 million bushels, were four percent above a year ago, according to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Service. Stocks on farms were up three percent at 64.2 million bushels while off farm holdings, 11.5 million bushels increased 11 per cent. Com stored in all position totaled 62.5 million bushels, a three percent increase over a year ago. Farm stocks at 55.4 million and off farm at 7.1 million were up two percent from five per cent, respectively. Wheat stocks, 3.9 million bushels, were up 49 percent above a year ago. Off-farm wheat stocks totaled 3.3 million bushels, while on farm stocks totaled 650,000 bushels. Oats held at all positions totaled 7.9 million bushels, up seven percent from a year ago, with 7.0 million bushels on the farm and 904,000 off-farm. Barley in NOW! 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RDI.Rt.42 Catawissa, PA 17820 717-356-2323 AUMILLER'S SALES & SERVICE Milroy, PA 17063 717-667-2115 GRUMELLI’S FARM SERVICE ZIMMERMAN FARM SERVICE Rd 12 Bethel, PA 19507 Quarryviile, PA 17566 717-933-4114 717-786-7318 E.T. CLINE A SONS, INC. E. First & Kuhn Ave. Hagerstown, MD 21740 Robert W. Clene, Mgr 301-739-2223 LG. SALES P.O. Box 200 Silverdale, PA 18962 215-257-5135 MILLER REPAIR RD 1,554 Gibbons Rd. Bird-In-Hand, PA 17505 717-656-9013 PETHICK’S FARM MACHINERY RO3 Honesdaie, PA 18431 717-253-3794 all storage positions, at 1.2 million bushels, decreased 29 percent from last year. On-farm oats holdings totaled 973,000 bushels while off-farm stocks amounted to 193.000 bushels. Soybean stocks of 499,000 bushels on farms increased 42 percent from a year ago, when on-farm holdings were 352.000 bushels. Pennsylvania rye stocks totaled 55,000 bushels on farm and 5,000 bushels off farm. In all positions, total stocks decreased 29 percent from a year ago. Sorghum stocks at all positions jumped from 33,000 bushels last year to the current 186,000 bushels. At the national level, corn stocks on April 1, 1980 totaled a record 4.78 billion bushels, eight percent more than last year. Farm stocks of 3.36 billion bushels, another record, were up eight percent from last year. Off-farm stocks at 1.42 billion were up seven per cent from the April stock a year earlier and were the or BALES (Tia CLARENCE R. SEAMAN, INC. Dauberville, PA 19517 215-926-5504/2285 Territory Manager DAVID D. DEITRICH 703-667-3787 holdings up 4% from 1979 iiifhest April 1 otf-farm stocKi since 1961. Disappearance from all storage positions during January-March is indicated at 1.99 billion bushels, 12 percent above the 1.78 billion bushels used in the same period a year ago. All wheat stored on April 1 amounted to 1.23 billion bushels, down slightly from stocks on hand a year earlier and 20 percent less than two years ago. Farm stocks of 570 million bushels are nine percent less than last year’s 630 million bushels. On-farm storage accounted for 47 percent of the total wheat stocks compared with 51 percent a year earlier. Off-farm wheat stocks totaled 655 million bushels, 10 percent more than last year’s 596 million bushels. Oats stored in all positions on April 1 amounted to 344 million bushels, 12 percent less than a year earlier and 18 percent below April 1, 1978. Farm stocks at 288 million bushels were 12 percent below a year ago WALTEMYER FARM REPAIR SERVICE RD 3. Box 46 Red Lion. PA 17356 717-244-4168 KNOTT & GEISBERT, INC. Rt. 2, Urbina Frederick. MD 21701 301-662-3800 TED BURNETT TIRES Rd 1 Westtown, NY 10998 914-726-3378 and off-farm stocks at 55.4 million bushels were down 14 percent. million bushels were down 17 Barley stocks in all percent from a year earlier positions totaled 261 million and off-farm stocks at 96.2 bushels, 12 percent less than ' million bushels were down 1979 but 10 percent above two percent. Compare The Savings on any cf these buildings that you may be interested in ' 'ji— IF YOU CAN EXPLAIN WHAT YOU WANT, WE WILL LAY IT OUT, BLUEPRINT IT, THEN BWII.P IT NO MATTER WHAT SIZE ATTENTION New Dairy Construction Fresh Cow Pens Manure Storage Milk Houses Poultry Operations Any Size Pole Buildings • Special Construction Complete Dairy Renovations Loafing Pens Calf Pens Milking Parlors Hog Operations Corn Barns WOODEN PEG CONTRACTING P.O. Box 324, Willow Street, Pa. 17584 David C. Minder 717*786-3606 Free Estimate and Blueprints if we do the work April 1, 1978 stocks. Farm stocks of just over 164 Soybeans in all positions on April 1 totaled a record 1.18 billion bushels, up 34 percent from a year ago and 39 percent more than April 1, 1978. Farm stocks of 604 (Turn to Page C 33)
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