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•  #Winter Wheat
•  #Acreage, Yield and Production of Small Grains
•  #Hay Stocks
•  #Corn Production
•  #Hog Inventory
•  #Turkey Production
•  #Dry Beans
•  #Prices Received
•  #Grain Stocks
•  #Livestock Slaughter
•  #Dairy
•  #Poultry

New York producers seeded a total of 125,000 acres of winter wheat in the fall of 2000 for harvest in 2001. This is down 17 percent from the 150,000 acres seeded a year ago.

U.S. winter wheat seeded area for 2001 is expected to total 41.3 million acres, down 5 percent from 2000. This is the smallest acreage since 1971.
 

New York farms held a total of 2.28 million tons of hay on December 1, 2000, compared with 1.90 million tons on hand December 1, 1999. This is an increase of 380,000 tons from 1999.

Nationally, hay stocks on farms December 1, 2000 was estimated at 104 million tons. This estimate reflects a 5 percent decrease from last year's 109 million tons. Stock decreases occurred in 23 of the 48 contiguous states.

New York grain corn production totaled 47.0 million bushels in 2000, down 21 percent from 1999's 59.6 million bushels. Acres harvested for grain totaled 480,000, down 19 percent from the 590,000 acres harvested last year. The statewide yield, at 98 bushels per acre, was down 3 bushels from last year.

Pork producers in New York had 80,000 hogs and pigs on hand December 1, 2000. This total was double the 40,000 head on hand a year earlier and 22 percent above the 1995-1999 average December 1 inventory of 65,400 head.

Of the current inventory, 10,000 hogs are for breeding purposes, up 67 percent from the previous December and 2 percent above the 1995-1999 average. The remaining 70,000 hogs and pigs, raised for home use or the slaughter market, is 206 percent above a year ago and up 26 percent from the five-year average.

The 1,000 New York hog farms produced a crop of 129,000 pigs during 2000, up 98 percent from a year earlier. Nationally, the 2000 pig crop declined 1 percent from a year earlier to 101 million head.

The U.S. inventory of all hogs and pigs on farms as of December 1, 2000 totaled 59.8 million head. This was 1 percent above December 1999, but slightly below September 1, 2000. Breeding inventory, at 6.28 million head, was up 1 percent from December 1, 1999. Market hog inventory, at 53.6 million head, was 1 percent above last year, but slightly below last quarter.

U.S. hog producers intend to farrow 2.91 million sows during the December 2000-February 2001 quarter, 4 percent above the actual farrowings during the same period in 2000 and 1 percent above 1999. Intended farrowings for March-May 2001, at 2.92 million sows, are 1 percent above the same period last year but 2 percent below 1999.

New York produced 510,000 turkeys during 2000, up 4 percent from 1999. The U.S. total of 270 million turkeys raised during 2000 is down slightly from the 1999 total. Minnesota leads the country in turkeys produced with 43.5 million, followed by North Carolina with 41.0 million head, and Arkansas with 28.0 million.

Turkey growers in the 20 major producing States intend to raise 1 percent fewer birds in 2001 than they did in 2000. The number of turkeys actually raised in 2001 may vary from growers intentions depending on feed costs, supply of hatching eggs, cost of poults, and prices growers receive for turkeys during the next few months.

Prices received by New York farmers during December were mostly higher compared with a month earlier. Prices for corn, oats, wheat, hay, potatoes, milk, and eggs increased while soybean and apple prices declined. Corn averaged $2.26 per bushel, up 6 cents from November. Wheat, at $1.95 per bushel, increased 6 cents. Soybeans brought $4.50 per bushel, down 7 cents from November.

Empire State dairy farmers received an average of $14.40 per hundredweight of milk sold during December, up 50 cents from the previous month. Eggs averaged 79.8 cents per dozen, up 12.4 cents from November. The December All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by U.S. Farmers was 98 based on 1990-92=100, unchanged from the November Index.

December milk production in New York totaled 966 million pounds, down 4 percent from last year. Decreases in both the size of the milking herd and yield per cow combined to cause the decline.

December milk production in the 20 major States totaled 11.9 billion pounds, virtually unchanged from a year earlier. The number of milk cows in the 20 major States during December 2000 was 81,000 head more than a year earlier.

Egg production on farms across New York State in November totaled 94 million eggs, up 9 percent, from a year earlier. An increase in the number of layers more than offset the lower rate of lay. Hens being force molted on December 1 were 2.5 percent of the laying flock, while 7.0 percent had completed force molt.

Laying flocks in the United States produced 7.03 billion eggs during November 2000, up slightly from the 7.02 billion produced a year ago. An indication of future egg supply, chicks hatched in the U.S. during November for the purpose of egg production totaled 32.6 million, down 1 percent from a year earlier. Eggs in incubators totaled 32 million on December 1, 2000, up 6 percent from a year ago.

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