Rain falls on Austrailia’s wheat belt WASHINGTON, D.C, storms pushed' across Australia the last week m May, bringing heavy rams to the wheat belt; according to a weekly report issued by the Jomt Agricultural Weather Facility of the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Agriculture. Weekly - rainfall amounts were close to normal monthly totals for May. Highlights of the report follow: —Australia. Widespread soaking rains across the wheat belt provided much needed soil moisture for planting and early growth of wheat. Some replanting may be needed due to localized mtense rainfall. The normal planting season extends mto July. —Canada. Beneficial showers fell on much of the Canadian Prairies where spring planting is in final stages. Soil moisture conditions are favorable for spring growth in Alberta and Manitoba. Wheat sowing is nearly complete in Saskatchewan with most areas reporting generally good ger mination and emergence. Southcentral Saskatchewan is the exception, however, with dry soil conditions causing spotty ger mination. —United States. Near normal temperatures prevailed except for the Southwest and Northeast where temperatures averaged as much as 10 degrees above normal. Abundant ram over the northern Great Plain and southeastern states improved soil moisture and crop development, but delayed both planting in the central and eastern Com Belt and early wheat harvesting across the southern states. Pasture conditions were improved by showers in portions of the Southwest. Light frost may have further damaged the fruit crop in northwest lower Michigan. . —USSR. Fair weather allowed rapid fieldwork progress last week with rainfall mostly limited to the far west, northern crop areas, and southeastern winter gram areas. Winter grains should have adequate soil moisture, but newly sown spring grains in parts of the Volga Valley and Chernozem Region may be somewhat short of moisture as surface soils dry out. Temperatures in this area are just above normal while conditions in .western portions of the country were substantially wanner, en couraging rapid crop develop ment. Persistent showers in the eastern portion of the New Lands improved conditions for ger mination and early growth of spring grains. In the vicinity of Pavlodar, however, conditions are too dry. —Europe. Rainfall increased m many areas, maintained somewhat unfavorably wet con ditions in parts of most nor thwestern countries. French of ficials are concerned about potential cereal crop damage. Above normal rams in parts of northern Italy and other limited areas, however,_ were generally beneficial. —China. Light to moderate rainfall in central Hebei helped late filling of winter grams. Harvesting got underway about a week early in central portions of the winter grain belt which remained dry. Heavier rains returned to areas south of the Yangtze River, but flooding should not have been common since only light ram has fallen in recent weeks. —Southeast Asia. Monsoon rams are well established with daily afternoon showers benefiting agricultural areas. —South Asia. Premonsoon showers increased m Bangladesh and eastern India, while monsoon rams appear to have begun about a week early m southern India. —South America. Most crop areas of Argentina and Brazil received light rainfall. Crop harvests progressed well except in Buenos Aires where wet weather slowed fieldwork. Soil moisture reserves are generally favorable for wheat growth with planting to continue through June. —Mexico. Dry weather con tinued to stress some crops m the western part of the Southern Two * ft Tractor . a iiii ft ft Pull & Taiiv wmjß-- ft & Tally Buck Winners June 6 5000 Super Stock 1. 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Willard Cahall, Townsend, DE, 79 Ford, 275.4. .word ad sue. Classify under DEADLINE: 9 A.M. THURSDAY OF EACH WEEK'S PUBLICATION RATES: 16* Per Word, *2.00 Minimum Charge For ads running 3 or more consecutive times with no change deduct 20 percent discount. 11 , 15 -$2.40 19 -$3.04 23 -$3.68 27 -$4.32 31 -$4.96 35 -$5.60 39 -$6.24 incaster Farming, Saturday, June 13,1981—87 PA broiler placements u one percent HARRISBURG Placements of broiler chicks m the Com monwealth during the week ending May 30 were 2,269,000, according to the Pennsylyama Crop Reporting Service. The placements were one per cent above the corresponding week a year earlier but nine percent below the previous week. Average placements during the past nine weeks were one percent above a year ago. Placements in the 21 key poultry producing states were 84,994,000, one percent below the previous week but three percent above the same week a year ago. Average placements in the 21 key states during the past nine weeks were four percent above a year ago. I I I I I I I (Number of Times) .times 12-$2.00 16 -$2.56 ■ 20 -$3.20 24 -$3.84 28 -$4.48 32 -$5.12 36 -$5.76 40 -$6.40
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