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Plan Your 'Hopper
Control Program
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By J. P. CORKINS
Asst. State Entomologist
BY NOW YOU have a pretty good
idea just what your grasshopper
problem is. You have looked over
your range and fields and know
where the grasshoppers are.
If you do find that hoppers are
developing on your place, the first
thing to do is to see your county
agent. He has complete information
on grasshopper control with baits
and sprays and can give you a wealth
of advice. Work out a planned op
eration for your control program.
Don't just jump in; work it out ahead
of time.
this year is being accomplished by
aerial spraying. The Montana aerial
sprayers are fast becoming specialists
in their fields. Most of them attend
a short course each year at Montana
State college to learn more about
how to carry out their spraying pro
grams more successfully.
For the first time we have reason
to feel confident that the proper type
of spraying for grasshoppers is sure
fire. Last year more than 100,000
acres in Montana were sprayed with
aldrin without a single failure to our
knowledge.
Much of the grasshopper control
Wheat Market Outlook . .
It Will Pay to Store
If Wheat Is Selling Below 1951
Loan Value at Harvesting Time
By GILBERT GUSLER
1
needed to see around all the twists
A LONG-NECKED periscope is
and turns in the wheat situation in
the year ahead. This writer does not
have one that meets the specifica
tions, but one point seems clear; it
will pay to store wheat if it is selling
a few cents below the 1951 crop loan
value at harvest time.
Prospects for both supply and util
ization appear to be shaping up
about the same as in the past season,
If those prospects are fulfilled, there
will be no shortage of wheat and the
nation will have a generous stock in
the bin at the end of the season,
000 bushels—705,000,000 winter and
349,000,000 spring, which would make
it the largest spring wheat crop in 36
years—against 1,027,000,000 bushels
last year and a 1940-49 average of
1,071,000,000 bushels.
The June crop forecast is 1,054,000,
The crop is still subject to sub
stantial gain or loss, however. Fine
weather could add 50,000,000 to 100,
000,000 bushels to it, while drouth,
bugs or blight could cut that amount
from it. Last year's final outturn was
ter wheat crop prospects in the
southwest substantially since early
spring, but they now threaten some
harvest losses.
82,000,000 bushels more than the
June forecast. Rains have raised win
Spring wheat is most sus
ceptible to a setback. Present
moisture conditions are rather
favorable,
rust, including the deadly race
1S-B, is reported in Mexico, but
there is little rust in Texas, so
that the risk of a severe outbreak
in spring wheat appears small.
Exports Heavy
Recent exports have been excep
tionally heavy and have been cut
ting rapidly into stocks. Carryover
on July 1 may be down to 390,000,000
Considerable
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U. S. AVERAGE FARM PRICES FOR WHEAT AND AVERAGE FARM LOAM RATES
Per
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U. S. WHEAT SUPPLY
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Carryover, July 1
1.50
1.25
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V'v'A.Terage farm price, by months
-— Average farm loan rate, 1951 estimated
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1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
Crop years beginning July
Data from U. S. Department of Agriculture
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Since 1938, when wheal prices were below die loan value early in the
they rose above if later In the season. In each of the last 13 years it paid to hold
wheat at harvest. U. S. wheat supply for the new season promises to be much the
same as in the last four seasons.
partaient of agriculture, against 423,
bushels, according to the U. S. de
000,000 a year ago. In only two other
years besides 1950 was the old crop
inventory larger when harvest be
gan than it is this year. Owing to the
international situation, this stock is
looked upon as a comfortable war re
serve.
These forecasts of crop and carry
over indicate a total supply of 1,«
444,000,000 bushels compared with
1,450,000,000 last season, 1,451,000,
000 two years ago, 1,511,000,000 three
years ago and 1,451,000,000 bushels in
1947. bn the supply side, current
prospects are for more of the same
-^g the last four years.
Domestic utilization is likely to be
about 730,000,000 bushels—510,000,-.
000 for food, 85,000,000 for seed and
135,000,000 for feed, according to the
U. S. department of agriculture. Feed
and seed needs are relatively con
stant. Only short feed crops that
would compel extensive feeding of
wheat would be likely to raise do
mestic use materially over the de
partment's estimate.
European Prospects
In western Europe, the chief, im
porting region, crop prospects are
poorer than a year ago. Eastern
Europe has a better prospect than a
year ago when drouth prevailed, but
whether these Communist countries
will release any wheat to western
Europe is conjectural. North African
prospects are about the same as a
year ago.
Canada has a much better
prospect than a year ago when
planting was extremely late and
about a third of the crop was re
duced to feed quality by early
frost. Argentine acreage is over
last year's and progress is sat
isfactory. Australia is dry and
acreage is even lower than a