A&Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 18, 1992
COLLEGE PARK, Md.
Don’t try to convince most com
mercial crop and vegetable far
mers east of the Mississippi River
of the global warming concept
Temperatures have been far below
normal during most of the grow
ing season.
Sweet-corn research by a Uni
versity of Maryland horticulturist
indicates that degree-days at the
Wye Research and Education
Center were only 65 percent of
normal during die period from
May 5 through June 30.
As a result commercial grow
ers involved with a wide spectrum
of crops may need to change plans
to avoid possible economic disas
ter this fall in the event of early
killing frost.
Local Farmers
Get Free
Market Space
PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphi
a Co.) The Reading Terminal
Market, located in center city Phi
ladelphia, is one of the country’s
oldest, continuously operating far
mer’s markets. Every week
80,000 customers buy food from
the market’s 75 merchants. Gross
sales for merchants exceed $l,OOO
per square foot
On Saturday, July 25, the Read
ing Terminal Market is hosting
Farmer’s Market Days, to prom
ote farm fresh foods grown and
produced by local and regional
farmers. Farmers are encouraged
to come to the market on that day
to sell products.
Fanners will be provided with a
minimum selling space measuring
8’ x B’. with an 8’ long table.
Those participating must arrive at
the Market by 8 a.m., and use the
loading dock entrance on Arch
Street near 11th Street Parking
spaces will be provided at a cost of
$B. No rent will be charged.
More than 15,000 people are
expected to shop at the market that
day. Saturday is the market’s
busiest day. Participants can
expect to sell a significant quanti
ty of products.
Farmers must reserve a place to
participate. Please call Duane Per
ry at (215)592-8774 to reserve a
space or for more information.
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Farmers
Those who plant soybeans after
small grain in a double-crop oper
ation are a prime example, accord
ing to representatives of the Mary
land Institute for Agriculture and
Natural Resources (MIANR) in
the University of Maryland
System.
This year’s wheat and barley
harvest is running about 10 days
behind normal, according to the
Maryland Agricultural Statistics
Service.
So followup planting of soy
beans already has been delayed
past the July 10 deadline recom
mended by agents of the Coopera
tive Extension Service, a part of
MIANR.
Paul L. Gunther, director of the
Cooperative Extension Service in
Queen Anne’s County, advises
29th All-American Dairy Show Announced
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
“A tradition of excellence will
dominate at our 29th show, not
only in the quality of the 2,000
plus cattle, but of the show’s hos
pitality as well,” said Obie Snider
as he announced the Pennsylvania
All-American Dairy Show dates
and judges for 1992.
Snider, president of the PA
Dairy & Allied Industries Associ
ation, added, "This spectaular
dairy event will open on Sept. 21
at the Farm Show Complex in
Harrisburg. In four days, over
more than 2,000 cattle, from six
breeds, are to compete in six
national shows.
The Pennsylvania Junior Dairy
Show will kick off the show ring
competition on Monday, Sqpt. 21.
In addition to the cattle show,
youth from all over the nation will
compete in the Invitational Youth
Dairy Cattle Judging Contest.
This cattle judging contest fea
tures 4-H, FFA, and collegiate
competition.
On Tuesday, Sept. 22, Brown
Swiss breeders will be competing
in the Eastern National Brown
Swiss Show with Richard Keene,
Gilbertsville, N.Y. as judge. Addi
tionally, the Milking Shorthorn
Show will be Tuesday with Jim
Patterson, Greenville. Ohio,
officiating.
The Eastern National Ayrshire
May Change Soybean Plans
farmers involved with double
cropping on the Delmarva penin
sula to plant a soybean variety this
year from the middle range of the
Group HI list instead of a later
maturing Group IV variety that
would be planted in a normal year.
Information on suitable variet
ies for various locations around
the state can be found in the 1992
edition of Maryland Soybean Var
iety Tests (Agronomy Mimeo 32),
available free from Cooperative
Extension Service offices in all 23
Maryland counties.
Gunther urged farmers to waste
no time getting soybeans planted
as soon as a wheat field is
harvested. He calls to mind the
long-standing rule-of-thumb:
“Every day that planting is
delayed past July 10 means a
Show is to be held on Wednesday,
Sept. 23 with Lowell Lindsey of
Guelph. Ontario, officiating. A
National Guernsey Show is also to
be held Wednesday, with Robert
Fitzsimmons, of East Montpelier,
Vermont, officiating.
Holstein breeders need to mark
their calender to Thursday, Sept
24, when the Eastern National
Holstein Show is to be judged by
Gary Estes of Ozark, Missouri.
Also, on Thursday, the All-
American will host the Mid-
N.Y., NJ.
ALBANY, N.Y. Dairy far
mers who supplied milk plants
regulated under die New York-
New Jersey marketing orders dur
ing June 1992 will be paid on the
basis of a uniform price of $12.93
per hundredweight (27.8 cents per
quart); the price of the corres
ponding month last year was
$11.04 per hundredweight.
Market Administrator Ronald
C. Pearce also stated that the price
was $12.36 in May 1992. The uni
form price is a marketwide
weighted average of the value of
farm milk used for fluid and man
ufactured dairy products.
The seasonal incentive plan has
been suspended for April-
November 1992. The plan would
have removed 40 cents per hun
dredweight from the dairy far-
bushel-per-acre yield loss in the
fall.”
And he reminded veteran far
mers that the shorter maturity
height of Group 111 soybeans
being recommended this year is
not the cause for concern that it
might have been five years ago or
more. Short soybeans can still
yield well, he noted, and the float
ing or “flex” heads on modem
combines can do a good job of
harvesting short plants.
In contrast to hard, dry condi
tions of recent drought years, most
Maryland soils contain sufficient
moisture this year to make plant
ing fairly easy.
Gunther recommended adjust
ing planter depth to achieve good
soil-seed contact. On the upper
Eastern Shore, this means a depth
Atlantic Regional Jersey Show,
with Dennis Patrick of Woodbine,
Md., officiating.
In additon to the national
shows, dairymen will have the
opportunity to purchase some out
standing cattle as the All-
American hosts the Invitational
Brown Swiss Sale, Pennsylvania
Elite Ayrshire Sale and the East
ern National Holstein Sale.
Continuing on the tradition of
excellence, the show will culmi
nate with the selection and recog-
Market Pays $12.93 -
mers’ uniform price for June. The
monies deducted, plus accrued
interest, would have been returned
in the August through November
uniform price calculation.
A total of 12.18 S dairy farmers
supplied the New York-New
Jersey Milk Marketing Area with
970,501,794 pounds of milk dur
ing June. This was an increase of
3.9 percent (about 36 million
pounds) from last year.
The gross value to dairy far
mers for milk deliveries was
$126,171,279.96. This included
differentials required to be paid to
dairy farmers but not premiums,
deductions authorized by the far
mer, or assessments.
Regulated milk dealers (hand
lers) used 356,795,589 pounds of
milk for Class I, 36.8 percent of
the total. This milk is used for
fluid milk products such as homo
genized, flavored, low test, and
of about one inch.
Seeds from the Group 111 varie
ty list should be planted at a rate of
two to three seeds per foot of row
if drilled in seven-inch row
widths. Plant six to seven seeds
per foot of row if using 17- to
19-inch row widths.
Gunther heads the 1993 plan
ning committee for the Delmarva
Com and Soybean Technology'
Conference, an annual event held
each year in the Wicomico Youth
and Civic Center at Salisbury.
Next year’s conference is set for
Feb. 10.
Sponsoring organizations
include agribusiness organizations
and the Cooperative Extension
Service at land-grant universities
in Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia.
nition of the top dairy cow, the
naming of the Pennsylvania All-
American Supreme Champion, on
Thursday afternoon, Sept. 24.
The Pennsylvania All-
American Dairy Show is spon
sored by the Pennsylvania Dairy
and Allied Industries Association
in cooperation with the Pennsyl
vania Department of Agriculture,
and the Pennsylvania Farm Pro
ducts Show Commission. Call
717-787-2905 for entry forms and
additional information.
skim milks. For June handlers
paid $13.88 per hundredweight
(29.8 cents per quart) for Class I
milk compared with $12.46 a year
ago.
Handlers used 169,032,782
pounds of milk for Class II pro
ducts, 17.4 percent of the total.
Class II products include fluid
cream, eggnog, cottage cheese, ice
cream, and yogurt. Handlers paid
$13.07 per hundredweight for this
milk.
The uniform price is based on
milk containing 3.5 percent but- ,
terfat. For June there was a price
differential of 7.1 cents for each
one-tenth of one percent that the
milk tested above or below the 3.5
percent standard.
All prices quoted are for bulk
tank milk received from farms in
the 201-210 mile zone from New
York City.