Penn State Dairyman’s Club To Celebrate 25 Years
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) The Penn State Dairy
men’s Club will celebrate its 25th
anniversary Friday, Nov. 7 dur
ing the annual meeting at Cele
bration Hall, State College.
A wine and cheese celebration
kicks off the evening at 6:30 p.m.,
followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Dur
ing the meeting, the club will
elect new officers, receive updates
on the Penn State Dairy Science
Club and judging teams, meet
this year’s Penn State Dairy Sci
ence Club seniors, congratulate
Editor’s note: This is a monthly col
umn from the Pennsylvania Ag Statis
tics Service (PASS), a field office of
USDA’s National Agricultural Statis
tics Service (NASS) in cooperation
with the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture (PDA). The Website is
m’H’H’. usda.gov/nass/.
CONSERVATION
PROGRAMS EVALUATED
The 2002 Farm Bill authorized $3B
billion in tax dollars to fund conserva
tion practices on farms and ranches
across the nation. This is about 80
percent above the level set under the
1996 Farm Bill.
It is widely recognized that these
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this year’s Poage-Grant-in-Aid
winners, and find out who is this
year’s Service Award winner.
An annual highlight is the un
veiling of the newest Penn State
milk bottle. The fifth-edition bot
tle will be available for purchase
at the meeting, along with the
first four editions. Antique milk
bottle holders, as well as blue and
white milk bottle caps, will also
be available.
An entertaining program cele
brating the 25th anniversary will
conclude the evening, recognizing
NASS
Agriculture Counts
By Marc Tosiano
Pa. State Statistician
conservation programs protect mil
lions of acres from soil erosion, en
hance water and air quality, promote
wetland and wildlife habitat restora
tion and preservation, and conserve
agricultural water use.
However, the environmental bene
fits have not been previously quantifi
ed and reported at the national level.
This is the goal of the new Conserva
tion Effects Assessment Project
(CEAP), a USDA cooperative effort
among NASS, NRCS, and FSA.
Tracking the environmental bene
fits of these programs will allow poli
cymakers and program managers to
implement and modify existing pro
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past board members, Nittany
Lion Fall Classic chairpersons,
and Poage-Grant-in-Aid winners.
The 20th annual Nittany Lion
Fall Classic will take place the
next day, Nov. 8 at 11 a.m. at the
Ag Arena.
Tickets for the annual meeting
are $l7/person. Alumni are en
couraged to sponsor a ticket for
the graduating seniors. To make
a reservation, contact Secretary/
Treasurer Nicole Over at (607)
739-8820 or by e-mail at Nic
ole.Over@pfizer.com.
grams and design new programs to
more effectively and efficiently meet
the goals of Congress. Annual reports
summarizing the benefits of conserva
tion programs will be produced begin
ning in 2005 and extending through
2008.
The delay in the initial report is to
wait for two surveys in late 2003 and
2004. About 10,000 points have been
selected nationwide. The operator of
the field containing each point will be
contacted by trained interviewers be
tween October and December.
Introductory letters have been sent
to each selected operator. There are
230 points in Pennsylvania.
Pa. Cash Receipts, Rankings
The 2002 cash receipts to farmers
was recently released. We all know
that milk is the largest single sector of
Pennsylvania agricultural production.
Milk accounted for 36.7 percent of the
$4 billion in gross agricultural sales
across the state. After that, cattle and
calves had 9.7 percent of sales, agari
cus mushrooms 9.7 percent, green
house and nursery 8.9, eggs 6.9, broil
ers 5.6, hogs 3.5, field com 3.2, hay
3.2, turkeys 2.3, soybeans 1.2, apples 1
percent, and other commodities
were each less than one percent
of the total gross sales.
Pennsylvania mushrooms
rank first in the nation with 59
percent of the national agaricus
mushroom receipts. Compared
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Penn State Dairyman’s Club fifth-edition milk bottles
will be available for purchase at the club’s 25th anniver
sary celebration.
to other states, Pennsylvania ranks
number 4 for milk sales; number 5 for
apples, grapes, and strawberries;
number S for oats; number 6 for egg
sales; number 6 for peaches; number 7
for tobacco; number 8 for
greenhouse/nursery sales; and number
9 for tomatoes and turkey sales.
These “Agricultural Counts” show
the importance of Pennsylvania agri
culture here and across the nation.
2003 Small Grain Crops
Pennsylvania small grain produc
tion compared to last year was as fol
lows: Winter wheat production was
down 29 percent at 7.1 million bushels
because of decreased acreage at
165,000 acres and yields at 43 bushels
per acre. Barley production was down
10.7 percent at 3.97 million bushels
because of decreased yields at 61
bushels per acre, but acres increased.
Oat production was down 7.5 percent
at 6.49 million bushels because of de
creased acreage and yields of 59 bush
els per acre.
Small grain production nationwide
was generally high. Winter wheat pro
duction was 49 percent above last
year. Barley production and oat pro
duction were each 22 percent above
last year.
s%amAg
2003 Crop Forecasts
The Oct. 1 crop forecasts are in! All
crops in the report show Pennsylvania
production to be above last year. The
report includes grain com, dry hay,
soybeans, tobacco, apples, and grapes.
Com yields as of Oict. 1 are forecast
at 120 bushels in Pennsylvania, up 52
bushels from last year and only 7
below the 2000 record-high yield of
127 bushels. Nationwide, at 142 bush
els, yields are up 12 bushels from last
year. U.S. production is forecast at
10.2 billion bushels. If realized, both
production and yield would be the
largest ever.
Alfalfa hay and other hay dry pro
duction in Pennsylvania are forecast
at 23 percent and 47 percent above
last year, respectively. Nationwide,
production levels are also above 2002
with 6 percent more alfalfa and 7 per
cent more other hay. The alfalfa yield
in all but 8 states is the same or above
last year’s level as mrtst areas received
adequate moisture. Record high yields
are also forecast for a number of
states for other hay because of abun
dant rainfall during the growing sea
son. Soybean yield is forecast at 40
bushels in Pennsylvania, the same as
the Sept. 1 forecast and 14 bushels
above last year. While Pennsylvania
production would be up 44 percent
from last year, production
nationwide is expected at
2.47 billion bushels, 10 per
cent below last year. If real
ized, this would be the low
est production since 1996.
Pennsylvania-type tobac
co production is forecast at
20 percent more than last
year. Maryland-type tobac
co production in Pennsylva
nia is forecast 8 percent
above last year. (There is no
forecast for other-type to
baccos grown in Pennsylva
nia.)
Apple production in
Pennsylvania is forecast at
440 million pounds, up 19
percent from last year. Na
tionally, apple production is
expected to be 1 percent
above the Aug. 1 forecast
and 9 percent above last
year.
Grape production in
Pennsylvania is forecast at
32 percent above last year
at 70,000 tons. The national
harvest is expected to be
down 4 percent from the
Aug. 1 forecast and 8 per
cent below last year.
The next update to these
agriculture counts will be on
Nov. 12 for grain com, soy
beans, and tobacco. Use the
Quickstats icon at
www.usda.gov/nass for the
latest statistics at the state
and county levels.
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