A24—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May 16,1981
HARRISBURG Total stocks of
wheat, com, oats and barley m
Pennsylvania on April 1 were 22
percent below a year ago at 61.0
million bushels, according to the
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Ser
vice.
Stocks on farms were down 24
percent while off-farm holdings*
decreased ten percent. Farm
holdings totaled 50.7 million
bushels with off-farm stocks at 10.3
million bushels.
Com stored in all positions total
ed 49.2 million bushels, a 25 per
cent decrease from a year ago.
Farm stocks at 43.2 million and off
farm stock at 6.0 million were
Reserve tops grand at Shorthorn Sale
MERCER The reserve grand
champion Shorthorn bull upset the
grand champion at the recent
Pennsylvania Shorthorn Spring
Sale, held at the Mercer 4-H Park.
MSF Major 037, a May, 1980
Thomwood Major son, topped the
sale at $lO5O. The yearling bull was
consigned by Diane McElhaney,
Hooktown and was purchased by
Pat and Jere McKee, New Castle.
The grand champion bull,
Windholme Clark 1070, a
November, 1979 son of Clark, sold
to Lionel Persinger, Proctor, West
Virginia and R. J. McLaughlin,
Woodsfield, Ohio for $B5O. The bull
was consigned by Windholme
Farm, Orange, Virginia.
The Virginia Shorthorn farm
also consigned the grand and
reserve grand champion females.
Windholme Lady 130, a January,
1980 daughter of Windholme Robin
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State grain stock down 22 percent
down 26 percent and 15 percent,
respectively.
Pennsylvania wheat stocks of 4.1
million bushels at all positions
were six percent above a year ago.
Off-farm wheat stocks totaled 3.4
million bushels, while on-farm
stocks totaled 740,000 bushels.
Sorghum stocks on farms totaled
100,000 bushels, down 46 percent
from a year ago.
Oats held at all positions in Penn
sylvania totaled -6.9 million
bushels, down 13 percent from a
year ago, with 6.1 million bushels
on the farm and 778,000 bushels off
farm.
Barley in all storage positions, at
817,000 bushels, decreased ten per-
King, sold to Glenn Aescheacher,
Beaver, fors7so.
Bidding stopped at $675 for
Windholme Princess 260, a March,
1980 daughter of Meadowbrook
Chief. The reserve champ’s new
owner is George S. Six, New
Freeport.
The high-selling cow/calf pair
sold for $675 to Thomas D.
Rodgers, Gibsonia. The pair was
consigned by George Hunter,
Stoneboro.
Joan Peoples, Volant, consigned
the high-selling bred heifer,
Maypleview Suzi. The heifer sold
to Whiting Cattle Co., New
Wilmington for $6OO.
Other high selling lots indudod
two consignments by Duncancroft,
Saxonburg. Duncan Rosewood
Lass SOX sold for $7OO and Duncan
Coromta Meg SOX sold for $650.
cent fmm last vear On-farm
holdings totaled 675,000 bushels,
while off-farm stocks amounted to
142,000 bushels.
Soybean stocks of 379,000 bushels
on farms decreased 36 percent
from a year ago, while rye stocks
totaled 35,000 bushels on-farm.
Nationally, corn stored in all
positions on April 1 totaled 4.0
billion bushels, 18 percent below
last year’s record level of 4.86
billion bushels. Off-farm stocks at
1.34 billion were down five percent
from a year earlier, while farm
stocks, at 2.65 billion bushels, were
off 23 percent from last year’s
record level. Disappearance from
all storage positions during the
Buying the pair was Wesley Butts
of Deposit, New York.
The 25 Shorthorn females
averaged $529 and 8 bulls averaged
$621. The 33 lots averaged $551.
Volume buyer with 6 females at
$2925 was the Whiting Cattle Co.
Robert Maxwell, a 1981 graduate
of Penn State, judged the pre-sale
show.
first quarter of the calendar year is
indicated at 1.86 billion bushels,
eight percent below the 2.03 billion
bushels used in the same period a
year ago. ""
Sorghum gram in all positions on
April 1 amounted to 313 million
bushels, 21 percent less than a year
earlier and 25 percent less than
April 1, 1979. Farm stocks totaled
82.9 million bushels and off-farm
holdings were 230 million bushels,
down 42 and nine percent,
respectively, from last year.
Disappearance from all storage
positions during the first quarter of
the calendar year was 154 million
bushels, 39 percent less than the
January-March disappearance in
1980.
Oats stored in all positions on
April 1 totaled 256 million bushels,
25 percent less than a year earlier
and 33 percent below April 1,1979.
Farm stocks amounted to 211
million bushels, 26 percent less
than a year earlier, while off-farm
holdings, at 44.4 million bushels,
were down 20 percent from last
year. Disappearance during
January-March 1981 totaled 135
bushels, down two percent from a
year ago.
Barley stored in all positions
totaled 202 million bushels, 23
percent less tian last year’s 262
million bushels, and 32 percent
below April 1,1979. Off-farm stocks
at 90.0 million bushels were seven
percent less than a year earlier,
while farm stocks, at 112 million
bushels, were 32 percent below last
year’s stocks. Disappearance
during January-March 1981 was
99.8 million bushels, down three
percent from the corresponding
period a year earlier.
All wheat in storage on April 1
amounted to 1.33 billion bushels, up
nine percent from a year earlier
and eight percent more than two
years ago. Farm stocks of 543
million bushels are five percent
below' last year’s 570 million
bushels. On-farm storage ac
counted for 41 percent of the total
wheat stocks compared with 46
percent a year earlier. Off-farm
wheat stocks at the beginning of
April totaled 791 million bushels, 21
percent above last year’s 656
million bushels. Disappearance
during the January-March quarter
was 571 million bushels compared
with 491 million bushels a year ago.
Eye stored in all positions on
April 1 totaled 6.80 million bushels,
55 percent less than last year’s 15.0
million bushels. On-farm rye
stocks at 3.48 million bushels were
61 percent less than a year ago,
while off-farm rye stocks, at 3.32
million bushels, were 45. percent
less than last year. Disappearance
during the January-March quarter
totaled 2.49 million bushels,
compared to 2.72 million bushels
last year.
Soybeans in all positions totaled
1.03 billion bushels, down 13 per
cent from a year ago, but 17 per
cent more than April 1,1979. Farm
stocks of 540 million bushels were
ten percent below last year, while
off-farm stocks totaled 494 million
bushels, down 15 percent from a
year earlier. The September-
March disappearace was 1.14
billion bushels, down nine percent'
from the same period a year ago.