Wheat, oats output increme but barley, rye drop
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania’s 1980 winter wheat
and oats crops exceeded 1979
production, but barley and
rye production declined,
according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting
Service.
Pennsylvania winter
wheat production totaled
9.250.000 bushels, 27 percent
above the 1979 crop. The
250.000 acres harvested were
six percent above a year
ago. Yield per harvested
acre averaged 37 bushels,
compared with 31 bushels a
year earlier.
Pennsylvania oats
production, at 19,040,000
bushels, was three percent
above a year ago. Acreage
harvested was 340,000 acres,
with an average yield of 56
bushels per acre.
Barley production in
Pennsylvania totaled
3,750,000 bushels in 1980,
down six percent from last
year. Acreage harvested
was 75,000 acres, with an
average yield of 50 bushels
per acre.
Rye production, at 434,000
bushels, was five percent
below 1979. Eye acreage
harvested was 14,000 acres,
with an average yield of 31
bushels per acre.
Pennsylvania farmers
seeded 260,000 acres of
winter wheat this fall for the
1981 crop, the same as last
year Winter wheat
production for 1981 is
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forecast at 7,800,000 bushels,
down 16 percent.
Pennsylvania growers
seeded 65,000 acres of rye for
all purposes in the fall of
1980. This is 18 percent above
1960 plantings of 55,000
acres.
United States 1980 winter
wheat production increased,
What
LITITZ “What are the
five most important yield
limitmg factors for corn 7”
In most instances, they
include:
1. Soil moisture deficit.
2. Inadequate soil fertility
(including low pH).
3. Low plant population.
4. Stalk rots.
5. Mechanical harvest
losses.
Many corn growers have
specific problems, but some
of these factors must be near
the top of the reasons they
don’t put more com in the
bin or silo. In many areas,
crop damage due to heat
during the 1980 growing
season is a fresh memory,
but high temperatures are
not likely to be a year-aftei
year concern.
Every year, most U.S.
com fields suffer a period of
moisture deficit sometime
during the growing season.
Sometimes these are of short
duration and yield losses are
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but 1980 crops of barley, oats
and rye declined. Production
of winter wheat totaled 1.89
billion bushels, 18 percent
more than last year’s 1.60
billion bushels.
U.S. oats production, at
457.6 million bushels in 1980,
was 13 percent below 1979.
Barley production totaled
are your major com yield robbers?
overlooked. The longer and
deeper a drought, the more
severe the yield reduction.
Inadequate soil moisture
during the three-week com
pollination period is the most
disastrous of all. Even with
irrigation, enough moisture
stress to cut yield sometimes
occurs.
During the 1970’5, many
serious com growers built
their soil fertility levels
appreciably and some have
reached the point that
maintenance amounts of P
and K will provide yield
insurance. Yet, fertilizer is a
big-ticket item in corn
production costs and there is
a tendency to cut costs by
cutting fertilizer rates. The
long-range effect can only be
lower yields and reduced
income.
Soil acidity deserves
special mention as it may
well be the number one
problem for many com
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358.5 million bushels, six
percent less than a year ago,
while rye production, at 16.3
million bushels, was down 27
percent.
U.S. farmers have seeded
a record high 63.9 million
acres of winter wheat for the
1981 crop. This is 11 percent
more than last year’s 57.4
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enough lime being apphed to
even balance the acidifying
effect of the nitrogen fer
tilizers being apphed.
Low plant counts are
taking more of the yield
basket than most realize.
There are expectations - top
notch com growers whose
management permits them
to use very high populations
with yield success. Yield
increasing higher
populations demand good
management of all the other
mput factors. But,, when
average corn plant
populations across the major
Corn Belt states run between
20,000 and 21,500 per acre,
there is room for im
provement, especially for
about half the farmers who
have harvest stands below
these averages.
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million acres and five
percent above the previous
record 61.2 million acres
seeded m the fall of 1948.
Based on December 1
conditions, 1981 winter
wheat production is forecast
at a record 1.98 billion
bushels, five percent above
the 1980 crop. Seeded yield is
it as a top five yield robber,
but over the years stalk rot
has earned that distinction.
Stalk rot is primarily an
indication of stress during
the growmg season. Thus,
weed competition, insect
infestations, leaf diseases,
and other adversities take
their direct toll while adding
indirect yield losses by in
ducing stalk rot.
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forecast at 30.9 bushels per
acre, compared to last
year’s 32.9 bushel average.
Growers across the nation
seeded 2.61 million acres of
rye for all purposes this fall,
three percent more than the
1980 crop of 253 million
acres, but 11 percent less
than the 1979 crop.
There is too much un
necessary yield loss due to
improper adjustment and
operation of harvesting
equipment. Growers seem
less concerned about these
losses than would be ex
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pressures of harvest dull the
mind to what is being left m
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