HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-11-11, Page 14PAGE 14. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1987.
North Huron corn: bumper crop with nowhere to go
Despite less land in Huron being
planted to corn this year, bumper
crops in the northern part of the
county have meant every inch of
storage capacityhasbeenputto
work, Brian Hall, Crop Specialist
with the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food said last
week.
While corn yields in the southern
part of the county were down
because of a hot dry summer,
Elevators are full to overflowing with this year’s bumper crop in North Huron as this mnnntain of corn at
Cook ’ s in W al ton shows. Although acreage is down this year, near perfect conditions in north Huron led to a
huge crop.
yields across the northern party of
the county average about 120
bushels to the acre, he said, about
10-20 bushels above normal. The
most phenomenal yields have been
in the Walkerton area where
regular yields are about 80 bushels
per acre but yields of up to 160-170
bushels have been recorded this
year.
It all adds up to a situation where
‘you can’t get an inch of corn
storage this fall,” Mr. Hall said.
Elevators across the county are full
and farmers not using their
on-farm storage generally have
rented it out to neighbours.
The hot summer and fall also
helped farmers in that moisture
levels in the harvested corn are
much lower than normal meaning
farmers can save on drying costs.
Farmers also got exceptional
yields on soybeans this year with
yields in the northern part of the
county being in the range of 50
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bushels to the acre when 30 would
be a good normal crop.
While beans also ended up being
a good crop he said with some
yields as good as last year’s crop
where yields never before seen in
Huron were recorded. The differ
ence this year is that weather
stayed good and farmers were able
to harvest the crop.
North Huron’s bountiful crops
were not the case everywhere. The
U.S. midwest had about normal
corn and soybean yields and
Michigan, the main competitor for
Ontario White Bean producers,
had a second poor crop year in a row
because of second growth in many
bean fields.
But there is good and bad in
every situation and the bad may be
for high-moisture corn, Mr. Hall
said. The corn was actually so dry
when it was harvested that there
may be problems with storage, he
said.
Brussels Stockyards buyers choosy on weight, type
The market at Brussels Stock-
yards saw the buyers being very
selective on weight and type. The
choice steers and heifers met a
strong demand at strong prices,
while heavy and undesirable cattle
selling under pressure. Cows sold
steady, pigs sold higher. Sheep
and lambs sold strong. There were
900cattle, 114 sheep and lambs
and 605 pigs on offer.
Choice steers soldfrom $85 to
$89 with sales to $96.75. Good
steers were $82 to $85.
A red steer consigned by Maple
Emblem Farms of RR 1, Dungan
non, weighing 1130 lb. sold for
$96.75 with their total offering of 92
steers, averaging 1245 lb., selling
for an overall price of $88.78. A
steer consigned by George Adams
of RR 2, Wroxeter, weighing 1210
lb., sold for $94.75, with his total
offeringof 23 steers, averaging
1260 lb., selling for an average
price of $86.98. Ten steers consign
ed by Alf Kuntz of RR 1, Formosa,
averaging 1320 lb. sold for an
overall price of $85.21 with sales to
$91.50.
Twenty-eight steers consigned
by Lome Forster of RR 1, Lucknow,
averaging 1248 lbs., sold for an
overall price of $88.64, with sales to
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