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Vol. 39 No. 25
Even though this past winter’s severe cold weather destroyed
the Pennsylvania peach crop this year, not all news about the
state’s fruit Industry Is, well, sour, as these Montmorency variety of
sour cherry blossoms In Quaker Valley at Sunny Hill Orchards In
Peach Crop Near Total Loss Statewide
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
BIGLERVILLE (Adams Co.)
“Our peach crop this year in
Adams County, Franklin, and
probably most of York is pretty
well shot,” said Bill Kleiner. Penn
State regional fruit specialist.
For growers in most parts of the
state, because of the devastating
winter, another disaster must now
be added to the downed buildings,
frozen water lines, and decimated
SRBC Reports
Tests On Flow
Of Nutrients In
Groundwater
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HALIFAX (Dauphin
Co.) The Susquehanna River
Basin Commission this week pub
lished what appears to be a seminal
study into the control of flow of
nitrogen into groundwater, based
on more than five years* worth of
data from two small areas of study
m Dauphin County.
The report was released Tues
day to Lancaster Fanning during
an onsite tour of one of the farms
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livestock. Peach growers now face
a total loss of their crop. This crop
amounts to about 90 million
pounds and about $2O million,
according to the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture's
Sowing Seeds Of Hope For A New. Corn Crop
In what was thought to be “planting a little early to get a
head start on 500 acres to do," this spring farming scene
came into view along Plainfield Dr. Just off Route 45 south of
State College on the Willard Campbell family farm, Pennsyl
vania Furnace. The Campbells have a large dairy and
farrow-to-flnish hog operation.
Son John Campbell was enjoying the warm spring weath-
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 30, 1994
1992-1993 Statistical Summary.
For growers in the south central
pan of the stale, including Adams,
Bedford, Cumberland. Franklin,
Fulton, and York, losses alone tot
al about 37,630,000 pounds, or
Blglervllle testify. Here, Scott Siaybaugh accompanies son Lyle,
wife Deb, and daughter Whitney to inspect the blooms. This week’s
summerllke weather has accelerated the bloom on many fruit trees.
Photo by Andy Androwo
about $12.85 million. That’s more
than half of the total production for
the state.
"There’s practically no peach
buds out there right now,” said
Kleiner. Growers "will not have a
er on the corn planter this week and said their ground had
dried out from the winter snows and spring rains a little ear
lier than some fields. And since they had the manure hauled
during the winter, they were able to work the ground and get
into planting. Actually, the planter was kicking up a little
dust when this photo was taken late Tuesday afternoon.
Photo by Enron Nowowongor, managing editor.
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crop at all."
Fruit specialists have been
monitoring the past winter at the
Penn State Fruitßesearch Laborat
ory in Biglerville. The site, home
$19.75 Per Year
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