A2B-L*ncaster Farming, Saturday, July 13,1985
HARRISBURG - Apple growers
in the southern region of the state
began harvest of early season
varieties during the week, ac
cording to the Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
Harvest efforts continued in the
northern region, where growers
were completing harvest of the
1985 strawberry crop in the state.
Producers in other areas of the
Commonwealth continued harvest
of blueberries, peaches, sweet
com, tomatoes, green peas, snap
beans and tart cherries.
Statewide, only four days were
rated suitable for fieldwork during
the week. Activities for the week
included harvesting hay, haylage,
green chop, barley and wheat;
cultivating and side dressing com;
and spraying soybeans. The
average temperature was 68
degrees, one degree below normal.
The average precipitation was .83
inch.
Throughout the state, topsoil
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Apple harvest begins
moisture supplies were rated by
reporters as 40 percent short, 53
percent adequate, and seven
percent surplus. In the northern
region, moisture was rated 50
percent short and 50 percent
adequate. Reporters from the
central region estimated moisture
supplies as 18 percent short, 73
percent adequate, and nine per
cent surplus. Moisture supplies
were rated in the south as 55
percent short, 36 percent adequate
and nine percent surplus.
Com averaged 31 inches in
height statewide, 12 inches taller
than last year at this time. Overall
crop condition was rated by
reporters as one percent poor, 12
percent fair, 44 percent good and 43
percent excellent.
At the end of the week, 97 percent
of the soybean crop was planted.
Last year at this time 95 percent
was planted, and the five-year
average is 95 percent. The overall
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by reporters as one percent very
poor, six percent poor, 20 percent
fair, 51 percent good and 22 percent
excellent. The northern region
reported soybean planting vir
tually complete. The central and
southern regions reported 99 and 94
percent complete respectively.
Wheat growers around the state
reported 12 percent of the crop
headed, 32 percent, turning yellow,
45 percent ripe and 11 percent
harvested. Last year at this time,
the crop was reported as 26 percent
headed, 45 percent turning yellow,
26 percent ripe and two percent
harvested. The overall condition of
the crop was rated as one percent
poor, 20 percent fair, 54 percent
good and 25 percent excellent.
Harvesting continues in the
southern region.
Across the Commonwealth, 17
percent of the barley crop was
reported turning yellow, 26 percent
ripe, and 57 percent harvested.
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the crop was reported headed, 24
percent turning yellow, 26 percent
ripe, and 38 percent harvested. The
northern region reporters
estimated 52 percent turning
yellow, 37 percent ripe and 11
percent harvested. In the central
region 14 percent of the crop was
reported turning yellow, 42 percent
ripe, and 44 percent harvested.
Southern region reporters
estimated eight percent ripe, and
92 percent harvested.
By the end of the week, reporters
throughout the state estimated oat
development as 56 percent headed,
35 percent turning yellow, eight
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percent ripe and one percent
harvested. Last year, 60 percent of
the crop was headed and 19 percent
turning yellow. Northern region
reporters indicated 94 percent
headed and six percent turning
yellow. Central region reporters
indicated 76 percent headed and 24
percent turning yellow. Southern
region reporters estimated 16
percent headed, and 63 percent
turning yellow, 20 percent ripe and
one percent harvested. The con
dition of the crop was rated by
reporters as one percent poor, 12
percent fair, 50 percent good and 37
percent excellent.
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County Conservation District
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York, Pa. Phone: 771-9430
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