Great Plains Damaged Acres Reported May 1
Local Soil Conservation Service reports from 285 Great Plains counties estimate about 10.1 million acres damaged as of May 1 this season, with over a million damaged in April. An additional 19 million acres remain at risk to blow, down 4.8 million since April. Moisture improved in April and windstorms were fewer than in prior months. Emergency filling reached nearly 12 million acres, about 2.5 million in April.
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Soil Conservation Service
Great Plains
The
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USDA Buys 495000 Pounds Eggs Weekly Total Rise
The USDA purchased 495000 pounds of dried whole egg solids last week, raising the total bought since the modified program began to 3015000 pounds over the past few months.
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USDA
Festival Showcases Lancaster County Farm Heritage at Landis Valley
About 2000 visitors including Gov. George M. Leader's family toured the Pennsylvania Farm Museum at Landis Valley for a two day festival. Displays featured steam engines, a Conestoga wagon, foot powered wood lathe work, decorative iron forge, and street car relics. Highlights included Roy Herr’s engine and Jacob Brubaker’s donation of a sawmill and other equipment.
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Pennsylvania Farm Museum
George M. Leader
Lancaster County
Landis Valley
Paul Eshelman
Albert H. Hersh
East Petersburg
Lancaster
Roy Herr
Jacob H. Brubaker
Rohrerstown
Yellow Goose
Noah Z. Getz
Brubaker
Medfly quarantine lifted in Dade and Lee counties Florida
The Mediterranean fruit fly quarantine regulations enacted May 16 1956 were lifted in the last regulated portions of Dade and Lee Counties Florida. Florida authorities will continue trapping spraying and certification of moving hosts in isolated infestations and for fruit and vegetable shipments. The Medfly threatened Florida’s citrus industry.
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Dade and Lee
Florida
Brubaker’s Farm Work Highlighted by County Labor History
Brubaker carried out custom threshing fodder shredding and silo filling across the county for 50 years. Plans mention housing engines in a separate museum building though construction start date is not known.
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Brubaker
Chile Reports Outbreak Of Foot Mouth Disease
The Chilean Ministry of Agriculture reports a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in South Central Chile. Quarantines are in place to curb spread and avoid worsening the country’s beef shortage due to the outbreak.
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Chile
Chilean
Ministry of Agriculture
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Strasburg Pike
Lancaster, Pa
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Eastern States
Eastern States Farmers’ Exchange
Robert Barr Washington
Boro Enos R. Buckwalter
Evan E. Dinger Reinholds
Mark Hosler
Manheim & Litiiz
Jacob L. Kurtz
Elizabethtown
Stephen M. Kurtz
Joanna & Conestoga
John S. Martin
Bareville
John Melhorn
Mount Joy
Wilson Scott Willow Street
Lester Schultz
Martin Wanner
Gap
David H. Weaver
New Holland
Eastern States Service Center
Quarryville
Sterling
Phone Express
Medfly
Lancaster Farming
Limestone
Paradise, PA
Hubbard Farms Production
Pennsylvania
New York
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Hubbard Farms
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Walpole, N. H
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