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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1975
Page
2
Cattle prices may have peaked with a possible finishing rise of 2 to 3 dollars per hundredweight before a retreat. Weather and supplies will shape cash prices near sixty dollars, while grassfed cattle could ease beef prices if drought or heat hits.
The Agriculture Department on June 1 forecast 1975 winter wheat production near 1.61 billion bushels, with yields averaging 32 bushels per acre, up from 29.5 in 1974. Rain slowed harvests in Texas and the southern Great Plains, nudging the projection down about one million bushels while 1972’s yield was 33.1 bu/acre. Spring potato output was estimated at 17.6 million hundredweight, down 3 percent from May and 27 percent below 1974.
U S production shows butter at 101 million lb up 14 percent from a year ago and nonfat dry milk at 111.5 million lb up 17 percent, marking multi month gains. American cheese declines for the sixth straight month to 153 million lb, down 14 percent. Jan to April totals show butter up 22 percent and nonfat dry milk up 31 percent, while cheese down 17 percent.
The Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin reports 96 percent of the corn in the 14 states that produced 88 percent of last year’s national total. It notes that 100 percent of the corn is in Iowa Illinois and Kansas as of June 1.
The lesson explores koinonia as partnership, sharing, and mutual participation linking believers to Christ and God. It emphasizes that biblical writings aim to help readers enter the writers’ experiences and encounter God, not merely recount events.
The guide warns on blossom end rot from wet periods and advises mulching and careful watering. It also recommends weekly rose sprays with fungicides like Folpet or Benlate and insecticides such as Malathion Sevin or Isotox to prevent black spot mildew and pests.
June calendar items include the Manheim Young Farmers Picnic at Mervin Hess Pavilion and the Pa Poland China Swine Breeder's Association Picnic at Roland Piper farm. Also listed are FFA Week events at Penn State, Pa Egg Marketing Association meeting at Sheraton Conestoga, Kempton Fair in Berks County, Reading Fair, Silver Spurs 4-H Grooming Contest, Mt. Joy Cooking Club, FFA State Activities Days at Penn State, Lehigh County Dairy Club, and Lancaster County 4-H Council meeting at Farm and Home Center.
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