P2—Lancaster Faming, Saturday, April 9,1983 A county-by-county look at PIK-idled acres HARRISBURG - In Penn sylvania, a total of 348,078 acres of cropland will be idled and put in conservation use in 1963. In the Commonwealth, 13,670 fanners have agreed to reduce corn and sorghum acreage by 306,981 acreb; 3,350 farmers will Wheat acreage County Allegheny Beaver Butler Cameron Clarion » Crawford Elk Erie Forest Jefferson Lawrence McKean Mercer Potter Venango Warren Bradford Centre Clinton Columbia Luzerne Lycoming Montour Northumberland Snyder Sullivan Tioga Union Wyomin, Berks Bucks Carbon Lackawanna Lehigh Monroe Montgomery Northampton Schuylkill Armstrong Bedford Blair Cambria Clearfield Fayette Fulton Greene Indiana Somerset Washington Westmoreland Adams Chester Cumberland Dauphin Delaware Frankhn Huntingdon Juniata Lancaster Lebanon Mifflin Perry York State-Total Corn I sorghum Allegheny Beaver Butler Cameron Clarion Crawford Elk Erie Forest Jefferson Lawrence McKean Mercer Potter Venango Warren Bradford Centre Clinton Columbia Luzerne Lycoming Montour Northumberland Snyder Sullivan Tioga Union Wyoming reduce barley and oats acreage by 10,317 acres and 9,801 wheat producers will reduce wheat acreage by 28,780 acres. Across the U.S., some 82 million acres will be idled. Nationally,- com and sorghum acreage will be reduced by 39,429,878 acres, wheat %of Acres Enrolled Base 12 63.2 36 24.8 228 39.9 135 45.0 530 66.3 2 100.0 451 36.5 55.1 22.6 53.3 55 1 69.2 50.0 50.0 172 177 16 904 111 47 616 96 912 401 206 490 1,359 352 79.5 21.9 62 228 34.7 32.0 55.7 1,638 1,131 696 40.2 46.6 41.2 35.4 51.7 1,511 435 746 1,165 1,217 24.3 23.0 26.2 50.6 58.9 85.0 39.0 278 196 106 176 33 193 498 35.6 61.8 57.3 35.0 184 191 207 232 43.8 36.3 40.0 43.3 3,345 105 1,078 479 871 90 848 126 188 199 1,402 1,672 28.7*8 %ot Acres Enrolled Base 71.2 72.6 55.5 47.7 59.2 72.6 52.7 61.8 20.3 58.4 57.1 48.4 62.7 51.9 63.3 71.6 161 1,038 4,426 51 2,632 10,969 269 5,520 28 2,090 4,786 386 10,125 1,574 1,785 686 3,233 7,302 3,113 9,571 4,937 8.062 6,129 15,870 4,612 277 3,314 4,556 1,517 by 32,062,569 acres, barley and oats by 2,308,170 acres. The remaining 8 million acres will be the reduction from cotton and rice production. Participating producers are enrolled in one or more of the 1983 crop reduction programs. The programs include the Acreage Berks Bucks Carbon Lackawanna Lehigh Monroe Montgomery Northampton Pike Schuylkill Susquehanna Wayne Armstrong Bedford Blair Cambria Clearfield Fayette . Fulton SmaH grain acreage reduction in Pennsylvania this year wW total 39,097 acres, including 10,317 in barley and oats and 28,780 Hi wheat And combines, such as this, won't be worked as hard this year. r ~ More than 300,000 acres of corn acres will be idled this year under the federal acreage reduction programs. Next fall, views like this will be a little harder to find. 10,222 5,713 2,720 905 6,117 2,471 5,323 9,739 29 7,320 1,055 135 5,729 5,049 3,445 2,323 1,359 4,659 3.721 * s Reduction Program, which provides eligibility for price protection (target prices),'price support loans, and land payments for a portion of the acreage placed in conservation cover. These provisions required a 20% reduction in acreage. Additional acreage Greene Indiana Somerset Washington Westmoreland Adams Chester Cumberland Dauphin Delaware Franklin Huntingdon Juniata Lancaster Lebanon Mifflin Perry York State-Total 47.2 34.7 44.2 38.5 49.8' 72.5 41.8 was a popular option called PK (Payment-In-Kind), in which the producer will receive government owned grain in lieu of cash payment for placing additional acreage in conservation cover. A county-by-county breakdown of the acreage reductions include: reduction (Turn to Page D 3) 91 35.8 5.045 62.1 5.609 49.9 1,595 65.7 - 5.162 51.4 15.409 5,821 11,356 6,332 653 8.988 3,399 7.524 3,581 2.653 2,924 7.841 18,141 308.983
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