C4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 4,1984
Sheep numbers increase
HARRISBURG Inventory of percent to 1.23 million. Wether and
all sheep and lambs on Penn- ram 181111)8 were seven percent
sylvania’s 4,900 sheep farms on lower than last year.
January 1,1984 was 104,000, up six Nationally, the 1983 lamb crop of
percent from a year earlier, ac- million head declined five
cording to the Pennsylvania Crop Percent from the 1982 lamb crop,
and Livestock Reporting Service. Breeding ewes one year old and
Of the total, 77,000 ewes were one older on January 1 were down six
year and older, 7,000 head were Percent from the previous year,
rams and wethers one year and Th® lambing rate was 99
older, 15,000 were ewe lambs, and lambs per 100 ewes one year and
5,000 were ram and wether lambs, older, compared with 98 in 1982 and
The inventory value of all 101 in BUB
Pennsylvania sheep and lambs
was 16.7 million, up seven percent
from last year. The average value
per head increased 50 cents to $64
per head.
The 1983 Pennsylvania lamb
crop was 80,000 head, the same as
1982. Breeding ewes one year and
older on January 1, were 75,000
compared with 95,000 a year
earlier. Lambs saved per 100 ewes
one year old and older was 107 in
1963 compared with 84 in 1982.
Total inventory for the United
States is estimated at 11.4 million
head, down five percent from the
12 million head a year earlier. This
is the lowest sheep and lamb in
ventory on record. The value of all
sheep and lambs on hand January
1 totaled |S94 million, down five
percent from a year ago. The
average value per head was $52.10,
up 30 cents from last year.
United States stodc sheep in
ventory was 9.7 million head,
seven percent below January Ist 1963
and the lowest number since
estimates were started in 1867.
Ewes one year old and older at 7.82
million head, were down five
percent. Ewe lambs declined 13
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