A3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 25,1981
Rainfall a mixed
LANCASTER - Rainfall helped
crop conditions in the United
States and parts of Europe last
week, but caused problems for
crops in China and South America,
according to a weekly report
issued today by the Joint
Agricultural Weather Facility of
the U.S. Departments of Com
merce and Agriculture.
Highlights of the report follow:
-United States. Very mild
temperatures were accompanied
by beneficial rams across most of
the Com Belt, the Great Lakes and
east from the central Mississippi
Valley. Cooler weather moved into
the Pacific Northwest.
Rain in northwest Kansas and
southwest Oklahoma aided winter
grams. Limited moisture in other
areas caused some crop stress,
particularly m the Northern 'Texas
- Oklahoma Panhandle regions.
-China. Heavy ram continued
south of the Yangtze River with
reports received of flooding in
PSU farm articles
win excellence awards
UNIVERSITY PARK - 'Five
members of Penn State Univer
sity's Extension Service staff have
been named state winners in the
Search for Professional Ex
cellence Program sponsored by
the National Association of County
Agricultural Agents.
The program is designed to
report the activities of Extension
educators whose programs
exemplify professional ac
complishment in their work, points
out Joseph Macialek, Extension
community resource development
agent stationed in Scranton and
state program chairman.
State winners by categories are:
Farm income: John Creighton,
Wayne County Extension director,
won on the basis of his dairy bam
ventilation program that resulted
in unproved herd health.
Rural development; Guy
Temple, Extension community
resource development agent
stationed in Lewisburg, was
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Hunad, Jiangxi and Fujian. This
has created problems for newly
sown crops. Most winter wheat
regions received only light rain
fall.
Severe moisture deficits have
not developed yet, but warm
weather has encouraged winter
gram growth and increased crop
water needs in dry parts of Hebei,
necessitating increased irrigation.
-South America. Ram delayed
Argentina's crop harvest last
week. To date, 35 percent of the
sorghum and 40 percent of the com
have been harvested. The soybean
harvest m just underway.
In Brazil, dry weather aided
crop harvesting, but m the south
where the soybean harvest is
beginning, continued dryness has
reduced soil moisture reserves
considerably.
-Mexico. Heavy rainfall in
March over northwestern
honored for his program with
pubhc officials concerning the use
of sewage lagoons for small
communities.
Urban programs; Charles
Replogle, Allegheny County Ex
tension agent, won with his entry
focusing on the integration of rural
and urban boys and girls in 4-H
camp with emphasis on energy
conservation.
4-H and youth; Ann McManus,
Allegheny County Extension
agent, for increasing 4-H
enrollment and pubhc awareness
of 4-H programs.
Administrative manage: E.V.
Chadwick, Luzerne County Ex
tension director, for increasing
productivity and 4-H membership
through reorganization of staff
responsibilities.
Chadwick also was named a
regional winner and will present
his paper at the National
Association of County Agricultural
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blessing in world crop outlook
watersheds increased irrigation
water supplies to a point where
they are adequate for most spring
and summer crops.
-USSR. Above normal ram in
eastern European USSR and below
normal rainfall in the west were
recorded last week.
Soil moisture was good to
somewhat excessive, and it ap
pears that field work has not been
seriously hindered. Temperatures
rose to hear normal in the winter
gram belt, permitting renewed
crop growth.
Above-normal March
precipitation improved the spring
gram-sowing outlook and helped
planting conditions for cotton as
well.
--Europe. Soil moisture
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remained m good supply m most
countries due to substantially
above-normal
precipitation. Continued rainfall
further improved growing con
ditions m Portugal and northern
Spam.
Adequate moisture conditions
prevailed m northern Italy, but
moisture is only marginal in
southern Spam.
-India. Dry weather provided
more favorable harvest conditions
m the winter gram areas of
Pakistan and India. No serious
losses are expected from last
month’s unfavorable cool, damp
harvest conditions.
-Northwestern Africa. Very
light rainfall m northern Morocco
helped winter grains ease through
the filling stage. Further potential
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yield losses due to dryness are now
unlikely, but production from this
area wUI be far below normal.
Rainfall in south Moroccan
winter grain areas has been in
sufficient to produce a crop. In
Algeria and Tunisia, dry weather
returned following the previous
week’s abundant rainfall.
Below normal March rainfall in
some areas had dimmed crop
prospects, but current moisture
supplied should assure near
normal yields.
March
-South Africa. Two weeks of
mild, dry weather in April indicate
the autumn retreat of the In
tertropcial Convergence Zone
which is associated with the wet
season in the Maize Triangle. The
com harvest has begun with
favorable weather.
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