1959 crop yields projected by agriculture department
The Agriculture Department forecasts 1959 corn at about ten bushels per acre below 1958, with soybeans near 800, wheat and oats modestly up, hay favorable, and fruit crops like grapes and apples showing variable results. Tobacco yields hold at 1675 pounds per acre with total output around 53.6 million pounds, while potatoes face weather-related reductions and the Coble r crop is pegged at 663000 hundredweight.
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Erie County
Clinton
Lycoming
Corn Price Support Rules for 1959 Announced
The 90 cent price support rate of 112 dollars per bushel, set last February, applies nationally with local adjustments. Farmers receiving support must have produced corn in 1959, meet grade No 3 or better, pass moisture tests, and store adequately. acreage allotments are not in effect for 1959, with loans and purchase agreements handling support.
Potato Growers Call for Higher Prices at Potato Day
Leland W. Nixon of State College urged higher grower prices to halt a 60 percent drop in Pennsylvania potato growers over ten years. At Potato Day near Coudersport he noted 800 growers farming 48 000 acres this year, the smallest PA acreage on record, and urged cooperative marketing without subsidies to boost farmer share while consumers pay less.
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Pennsylvania
Harold Gross
Manchester
York County
Lancaster County
Christ Miller
Elizabethtown
Ernest Rotz
Franklin County
Chambersburg
Ira Whiteman
Centre County
Center Hall
Charles W. Holub
Dauphin County
Harrisburg RD
Charles Hess
Dallastown
Coudersport
Leland W. Nixon
State College
Pennsylvania Cooperative Potato Growers Association
Potato City
Here
Nixon
Pennsylania
Sumer
Owen L. Barkley
E. L. Nixon
Association
Potato City Farm
Witmer Guernseys Add New Laurels
Raymond and Louise Witmer of Wulow Street Pa are owners of two registered Guernseys that recently completed outstanding final production records Zeitler Actors Suerantine a senior four year old produced 10230 pounds of milk and 525 pounds of fat in 305 days milked twice daily Al Meda Blends Choice a junior four year old produced 11400 pounds of milk and 560 pounds of fat in 305 days These official production records were supervised by Pennsylvania State University
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond
Louise Witmer
Wulow Street
Zeitler
Suerantine
al Meda
Choice
Pennsylvania State University
Bi County 4-H Pig Roundup Set for Sept 1 2
The Lancaster and Lebanon counties 4-H Pig Roundup is scheduled for September 1 and 2 at Lancaster Union Stock Yards. Entries are due Tuesday September 1 and the show and sale will be Wednesday. Judge will be Lester Burdett, Extension Livestock Specialist, Penn State U.
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Lancaster and
Lebanon Counties
Lancaster Union Stock Yards
Max M Smith Smith
Lester Burdett
Penn State U
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Dept of Agriculture
Agen
Sylvania
Witmer
John Neff
Nettsville
Winthrop Merriam
Cubt
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