Al4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 2,1982
NEWARK, Del. - The fourth
annual Delaware Vegetable
Grower’s Meeting will be held Jan.
14-15 at the Sheraton Inn, Dover.
As in the past, the Delaware Potato
Grower’s Association is meeting at
the same time and sharing some
sessions.
The meeting will start at 8:30
Thursday morning with
registration, coffee and damsh,
and a visit to trade exhibits. The
formal part of the program starts
at 9:30 a.m. and will feature a talk
by Governor P.S. duPont IV on
“Agriculture: A Critical Part of
Delaware’s Economy.”
Other topics to be covered during
the general session include
“Understanding Credit and how to
Make It Work for Your Vegetable
Operation,” by Bob Miller of the
Maryland National Bank; and
“The Perishable Agricultural
Commodity Act and How It Can
Serve You,” by Jack Flanagan,
P.A.C.A.-U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
The afternoon program will be
divided into two sections; a
general vegetable session and a
session for potato growers.
Topics to be covered during the
general session include:
greenhouses for vegetable plant
production, sweet corn insect
management, principles of disease
control with fungicides, and
growing ethnic vegetable crops.
There will also be a drip irrigation
grower’s panel and a presentation
on pea and bean seedling diseases
and bacterial wilt of cucumbers.
The potato growers will hear
reports on Delaware potato
variety trials, new developments
in Colorado potato beetle control,
the potato market outlook, and
Del. Vegetable Growers
minor elements in Delaware soils
affecting potato production.
Featured entertainment at the
annual banquet Thursday night
will be a demonstration by
nationally known artist Helen Van
Wyk of Rockport, Massachusetts.
She has pamted people from all
walks of life including theater
people, lawyers, doctors, in
dustrialists, educators, diplomats,
clergymen and farmers. At fho
CHAMBERSBURG - The
Chambersburg field office of the
Soil Conservation Service has
developed conservation plans on
about 4,900 acres of Franklin
County land with 52 landowners in
1981.
"Any landowner who has
problems with drainage, erosion,
or needs assistance in determining
land use, can request conservation
planning assistance through the
Franklin County Conservation
District,” explains John Akers,
district conservationist. “These
requests are referred to the Soil
Conservation Service, and SCS
personnel meet with tne individual
landowner to provide on-site
assistance.”
A conservation plan includes a
soil survey map of the area and an
outline of measures or practices
that will solve the problem or help
the landowner to use soil according
to its capabilities.
Those landowners who have
recently received planning
banquet, she will choose a model
from the audience and begin to
paint, while explaining the art of
portrait painting.
The general session on Friday
morning, Jan. 15, runs from 8:30 to
noon. It will include an update on
herbicides for peas, beans,
cucurbits and strawberries, plus
talks on bees and vegetable
production, and designing your
irrigation ‘■ystom. Several
Franklin SCS helps 52 landowners
solve conservation problems
assistance are: Matthew Felmlee,
Robert Johnson, and Samuel
Crider, Metal Township; Ray
Caracciolo and Wayne Treible,
Fannett Township; Wilbur
Burkholder, Greene Township;
Production of small grains
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania’s 1981 wheat, oats and
barley production was up over
1980, but production of rye was
less, according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting Service.
Production of winter wheat was
9.720.000 bushels, five percent
more than the 1980 crop. The
270.000 acres harvested was eight
percent above a year ago. Yield
per harvested acre was 36 bushels
compared with 37 bushels a year
earlier. Oats production, at
20.010.000 bushels, was up five
percent from a year ago. Acreage
harvested was -345,000 acres with
an average yield of 58 bushels per
acre.
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Mt. Brook Orchards, St. Thomas
Township; Clifford Hawbaker,
Hamilton Township; and Garry
Hepworth, Southampton Town
ship.
Anyone desiring conservation
Barley production in 1981 was
4,104,000 bushels, up nine percent
from last year. Acreage harvested
was 76,000 with average yield at 54
bushels per acre. Rye production
was 363,000 bushels, down 16
percent from last year. Acreage
harvested was 11,000 acres with an
average of 33 bushels per acre.
Pennsylvania farmers have
seeded 235,000 acres of winter
wheat for the 1982 crop, down 16
percent from a year earlier.
Winter wheat production for 1982 is
forecast at 7,755,000 bushels, down
20 percent from 1981. Pennsylvania
farmers seeded 60,000 acres of rye
for all purposes in the fall of 1981,
meet Jan. 14
presentations will deal with
market opportunities for Delaware
Vegetable Growers: pick-your
own, supplying the wholesaler, and
customer profiles of U-pick and
roadside stands. A Virginia
vegetable grower will tell how
young farmers can overcome
marketing obstacles.
The day-and-a-half event is
sponsored jointly by the Delaware
Potato Growers Association, the
R.D. 2, Narvon, PA 17555
Phone: (717) 354-4651 or 354-5566
r °o k
Delaware Vegetable Grower’s
Association, and the Delaware
Cooperative Extension Service.
There will be a registration fee of
$5 for those who are not association
members. Banquet tick. t& cost $l5
per person.
For further information or
banquet reservations, contact
Kent County agricultural agent Ed
Kee at 302/736-1448.
planning assistance for the next
year should contact the Soil
Conservation Service office m
Franklin County at 550 Cleveland
Avenue, Cl l ambersburg, PA 17201,
or telephone 717/264-7013.
up in 1981
up nine percent from the previous
year.
United States production of all
small grains was up m 1981
compared with 1980. Production of
winter wheat totaled -2.1 billion
bushels, 11 percent more than last
year’s 1.9 billion bushels. United
States oats production was 508.1
million bushels, 11 percent more
than in 1980. Production of barley
totaled 478.3 million bushels, up 33
percent from a year ago. U.S. rye
production was 18.6 million
bushels, up 13 percent from 1980.
Farmers in the U.S. seeded 66.3
million acres of winter wheat for
the 1982 crop, one percent more
than last year’s 65.9 million acres.
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