B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 18,1981
Farm Business
News
Bio-Lab names outlet
DECATUR, GA - Melhorn Sales
and Service of Mt Joy, will now
handle the Bio-Lab line of Poultry
and Swine Sanitation Products
Melhorn is a sales outlet for
DeKalb Ag Research of Sycamore,
IL.
The appointment makes
available locally, Bio-Lab poultry
and swine care products to
producers in the Southeastern
Pennsylvania and adjoining
Maryland markets Melhorn Sales
Reps who will service this area
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George Jakovich has been
named Manager of Penn
sylvania Operations for
Dairylea Cooperative, Inc.
He will be based in Scranton.
include Clay Mununa, David
Fahs, and Frank Morton
Melhorn Sales and Service is
located at 40 Donegal Springs
Road, Mt Joy, PA 17551
Md. gets
tobacco grant
UPPER MARLBORO, MD. -
The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company ot Winston-Salem, N.C.,
recently presented the Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station
with an 518,500 check tor tobacco
production research by University
ot Maryland faculty members in
the agronomy and agricultural
engineering departments. A
similar $5,000 check was presented
earlier this year.
Money trom both grants will be
used to continue development ot
improved Maryland varieties and
the curing ot prime Maryland
tobacco. Funds will also be used
tor studies ot baled Maryland
tobacco, including moisture-level
ettects
Arnold R. Mitchem, agricultural
research coordinator tor Reynolds
Tobacco, presented the $18,500
check during an informal
ceremony at the University ot
Maryland’s tobacco research tarm
near Upper Marlboro (Prince
Georges county).
State studies crop outlook
HARRISBURG Based on July
1 conditions, Pennsylvania far
mers will produce more corn tor
gram, winter wheat, oats, barley,
tart chei nes, and pears ttus year,
according to the Pennsylvania
Crop Reporting Service There will
be decreased production of rye,
apples, peaches, and sweet
cherries.
Pennsylvania’s corn tor gram
crop is estimated at 123.7 million
bushels, compared with 96.0
million bushels last year. Yield is
forecast at 93.0 bushels per acre
compared with 75.0 bushels the
previous year Aiea to be har
vested for grain is estimated at
1.330.000 acres.
Winter Wheat production is
estimated at 10.3 million bushels,
up 11 percent from a year ago.
Acres tor harvest as gram is set at
270.000 Oats production is ex
pected to total 19.6 million bushels,
up three percent trom a year ago
with 350,000 acres to be harvested.
Barley production in Penn
sylvania is estimated at 4.4 million
bushels, up 17 percent trom a year
ago with 81,000 acres to be har
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vested. The state's rye crop at
352,000 bushels, is down 19 percent
with 11,000 acres tor harvest for
gram The July 1 pasture condition
toi the Commonwealth is rated 93
percent, seven pomts above last
year.
Sweet and tart cherry crops are
forecast at 400 tons and eight
million pounds, respectively. Pear
production is estimated at 3,800
tons, up nine percent from a year
ago. Apple production is estimated
at 450 million pounds, down 21
percent trom a year ago. Peach
production is estimated at 65
million pounds, down 38 percent
trom a year ago.
National winter wheat
production is forecast at a record
high 2.09 billion bushels, up 11
percent trom the 1980 crop. Com
production is forecast at 7.12
billion bushels, up seven percent
trom last year. This will be the
third largest crop on record, ex-
U.S. oats production is forecast
at 528 million bushels, 15 percent
above the 1980 production, while
barley production is forecast at 478
million bushels, up 83 percent trom
last year’s production. Apple
production is forecast at 806
billion pounds, nine percent below
last year’s record high crop and
• one percent below 1979.
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