Good growing conditions push crops
HARRISBURG Rain com
bined with warm weather to
provide good growing conditions
during the week ending June 15,
but limited Pennsylvania farm
fieldwork to four days, according
to the Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service. Harvesting of
strawberries and cherries is in
full swing.
Field activities included
spraying; harvesting strawberries
and cherries; making hay, haylage
and green chop; and planting
soybeans, tobacco and com.
Topsoil moisture for the state
was mostly adequate to surplus
with a reported 63 percent
adequate, 30 percent surplus and
seven percent short. Regionally,
soil moisture was reported 37
percent adequate, 58 percent
surplus and five percent short in
the north; 81 percent adequate, 13
percent surplus, and six percent
short in the central region; and 82
percent adequate, nine percent
surplus and nine percent short in
the south.
-Com planting is 93 percent
complete, compared to last year
and the five-year average when
corn planting was virtually
Stay with the reliables.
Bargain basement
sucker control
is no bargain.
' When you’re raising a crop
that’s worth so much an acre,
you don’t take chances on
anything as basic as sucker control.
That’s why most tobacco
growers stay with the industry’s
two leading systemics. MH-30®
BBS
complete. Planting is now 92
percent complete in the north
while 94 percent complete in the
central and southern counties.
Cora height is averaging eight
inches for the state, compared to
Seven inches last year.
At 70 percent, soybean planting
is still behind last year when 83
percent of the crop was planted.
The central region reported 73
percent planted while the northern
and southern regions reported 69
percent planted. Tobacco tran
splanting is 76 percent complete,
compared to 56 percent last year.
Statewide, barley is 63 percent
headed with 34 percent turning
yellow, compared to last year at
this time when 65 percent was'
headed with 31 percent turning. In
the north, 73 percent of the crop is*
headed with 18 percent turning,
while the central region reported
72 percent headed and 28 percent
turning. The south reported 44
percent headed and 56 percent
turning.
Wheat is reported 84 percent
headed and less than five percent
turning yellow across the com
monwealth. Last year at this time
wheat was 90 percent headed and
MH-30
Royal MH3O
eight percent turning. The north
reported 71 percent headed and
five percent turning. The central
region reported 97'percent headed
and less than five percent turning
while the south reported 84 percent
headed and five percent turning.
Statewide, first cutting of alfalfa
is reported as 43 percent har
vested, down from 50 percent
harvested last year at this time.
The south reported 67 percent
harvested, while the northern and
central regions reported 19 and 52
percent respectively.
Clover-timothy stands are '29
percent harvested in Penn
sylvania, compared to 28 percent
harvested last year. The central
region reported 38 percent har
vested, while the northern and
southern regions reported 16 and 37
percent respectively.
Hay quality for the week was
mostly good to fair. The north
reported hay quality 47 percent
fair, 29 percent good and 24 percent
poor. The central region reported
hay quality 43 percent fair, 28
percent good and 29 percent poor.
The south rated hay quality 55
percent fair, 36 percent good and
nine percent poor. Feed from
al MH-30® from Qniro
or Ro
Chemical.
Good tobacco growers know
that you never sacrifice depend
ability for price. So go for all
the reliability you can buy. Insist
on original MH-30 or fast acting
Royal MH-30 with.Sorbatran*
It’s just good business. Ciniroyal
Chemical, Division of Uniroyal,
Inc., Naugatuck, CT 06770.
As with an£ growth regulant always
t follow instructions on the label
Registered trademark
Ciniroyal Chemicals
Prefaced because
they perform.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 20,1981—A13
pasture was rated average to
above average for the state.
Some frost damage to peach and
Block
new
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block announces the appointment
of D. Elmer Hawbaker as State
Director for Farmers Home
Administration in Pennsylvania.
Prior to his apointment,
Hawbaker had been a Bureau
Director of the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture since
1979. There he had responsibility
for 150 chemists and inspectors in
the food control and milk
sanitation activities for the state.
Hawbaker, 65, owned and
operated a dairy farm in Mer
cersburg for over 30 years. In
conjunction with his own farming,
enterprise, he managed two other
farms of 150 acres each and
operated his own pasteurizing
apple trees was reported in various
parts of the state. Cabbage
growers again reported problems
with cutworms.
appoints
director
plant and marketed retail milk.
Hawbaker served in the State
Senate from 1961-1972,mid there he
was chairman of several com
mittees, including Republican
Caucus, Agriculture, Labor and
Industry, Pesticides, and Special
Committee on Milk Marketing.
The Farmers Home Ad
ministration is a credit agency of
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. As State Director,
Hawbaker is responsible for the
loan and grant activities of 175
FmHA employees in 37 County and
5 District Offices, as well as a State
Office in Harrisburg.
Hawbaker served with the U.S.
Army Air Force from 1943-1946. He
attended Chambersburg Business
College.
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