Al6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, luiy 25,1981
Livestock market and news
Indiana Auction
Thursday, July 23
Report supplied by PDA
CATTLE: 126. Compared with
last week’s market: SI. cows most
ly 1.00 lower. SI. steers few Good
53.00-60.00; Standard 47.00-55.25;
SI. heifers few Good & Choice
53.0057.00; Standard 44.0050.75.
SI. cows Utility & Commercial
45.0047.25; Cutters 42.5045.75;
Canner & L. Cutter 35.0042.00. SI.
bulls: Yield Grade No. 1 & 2,
10501435 lbs. 51.75-57.75.
Heifers, Medium Frame No. 1,
340640 lbs. 42.5052.00. Bulls
Medium Frame No. 1, 510760 lbs.
45.5051.75.
CALVES: 94. Vealers mostly
steady. Few Choice 80.00-81.00;
Good 67 00-80 00; few Standard &
Soil erosion means
dollars down
HARRISBURG Soil erosion
can have a senous economic effect
on agricultural lands. According to
Joel Myers of the Soil Conservation
Service in Dauphin „ County, an
annual ten ton soil loss per acre
can be valued at a loss of $75. This
value includes the cost of topsoil as
well as accompanying fertilizer,
lime, spray materials - the loss of
which can reduce crop yields.
Myers explained that many
cropping systems in Dauphin
County include all or nearly all row
crops such as com, soybeans and
vegetables. Also, small gram crops
are grown in rotation with these
crops in many instances. These
cropping systems without the
benefit of conservation practices
and hay or grass greatly increase
the erosion potential of our farm
land and can result in soil losses in
excess of 10 tons.
Myers continued by indicating
that acceptable soil losses m
Dauphin County will range from 3-
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Good 90110 lbs. 52.00-61.00; tew
65-65 lbs. 40.0050.00.
FARM CALVES; Hoi. Bulls
90130 lbs. 66.0094.00; few Hoi.
Heiters 75-95 lbs. 93.00110.00.
HOGS: 108. 1.502.00 lower. US
No. 1-2 205-245 lbs. 51.75-53.00; few
No. 2-3 200290 lbs. 48.25-50.00; No,
1-3 145-190 lbs. 40.0048.00; Sows
about steady. US No. 1-3 295-525
lbs. 44 5049.00; few No. 2-3 280675
lbs. 42.50-45.00. Few Boars
38.75-40.75.
FEEDER PIGS 46. US No. 1-3
3045 lbs. 24.0034.00 per head;
Utility 35-40 lbs. 14.0018.50 per
head.
SHEEP: 71. Few Choice 75-100
lbs. 55.0058.50. Good & Choice 7085
lbs. 49.0053.00. Good 6075 lbs.
40.00-43.50. SI. ewes: 10.0024.50.
the drain
5 tons per acre per year. Soil losses
can be reduced to those levels by
utilizing combinations of struc
tural and management practices
such as conservation tillage,
cropland terraces and diversions,
contour farming, the use of crop
residues and winter cover crops.
Erosion occunng at rates in
excess of 3-5 tons per acre per year
can have detrimental effects on
our farmlands by reducing
moisture retention, increasing
runoff, reducing current yields and
reducing the overall future soil
productivity.
Myers added that when erosion
becomes visible in cropland, the
soil losses are generally in the
range of 10 tons per acre. For more
information about soil loss or
conservation measures needed to
reduce soil loss contact the
Harrisburg Field Office of the Soil
Conservation Service by calling
652-7035.
2313 NORMAN ROAO;
LANCASTER, PA
PHONE: 717-397-5152
Hours Monday thru Friday 7 to 4
Closed Saturdays during July and August
Tobacco suckering finds farmers in fields
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...... , ohannn shoulder height. Their painstaking task of
In hdds throug o t ' farmers suckering each tobacco plant was made more
and Chester counties, tobacco farmers , t °- th , sunn v We ather
walked rows of plants that nearly reached pleasant with cool, sunny weather.
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