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• #Field Crop Acreage
• #Crop Production
• #Fruit Forecast
• #Potato Acreage
• #Grain Stocks
• #Hog Inventory
• #Prices Received
• #Livestock Slaughter
• #Dairy
• #Poultry

Corn planted for all purposes in New York is estimated at 1.10 million acres, up 12 percent from last year. Corn acreage to be harvested for grain is expected to total 540,000 acres, 13 percent above a year ago. Soybean plantings are expected to total a record high 140,000 acres, up 4 percent from 2000. Acreage harvested for all types of dry hay is expected to total 1.66 million acres, up 9 percent from last year. Dry bean harvested acreage is estimated at 31,000 acres, up 27 percent from a year earlier.

Oat production is expected to total 5.33 million bushels, up 37 percent from 2000. Yields are forecast at a record high 71 bushels per acre, up 6 bushels from a year ago. Winter wheat production is forecast at 6.60 million bushels, down 11 percent from the 7.42 million bushels produced in 2000. Yields are forecast at 55 bushels per acre, up 2 bushels from last year. The first yield and production forecast for corn, soybeans, dry beans, and hay will be released on August 10.

U.S. corn acreage planted for all purposes is estimated at 76.1 million acres, down 4 percent from last year. Growers expect to harvest 69.3 million acres for grain, down 5 percent from 2000. Soybean plantings for the nation are estimated at 75.4 million acres, up 1 percent from last year. Area for harvest is estimated at 74.3 million acres, up 2 percent from 2000. This is the largest planted and harvested acreage on record. Oats to be harvested for grain are expected to total a record low 2.19 million acres, 6 percent below last year's record low acreage. Oat production for 2000 is forecast at 132 million bushels, 11 percent below last year. The estimated yield is 60.5 bushels per acre, down 3.7 bushels from 2000.

The nation's winter wheat production is forecast at 1.37 billion bushels, up 13 percent from 2000. Area for grain harvest is forecast at 31.7 million acres, down 10 percent from last year. Yields are expected to average 43.2 bushels per acre, down 1.4 bushels from a year ago. U.S. producers expect to harvest 63.8 million acres for dry hay in 2001, up 7 percent from the 59.9 million acres harvested last year. Alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures are expected to total 23.8 million acres, up 3 percent from last year. All other hay is estimated at 40.1 million acres, up 9 percent from a year earlier. Dry bean harvested acreage is expected from 1.33 million acres, down 17 percent from last year.

New York's peach crop is forecast at 13.0 million pounds, up 8 percent from the 12.0 million pounds produced last year. U.S. peach production, excluding California Clingstones that are mostly canned, is expected to total 1.48 billion pounds, 3 percent less than last year but 1 percent more than 1999.

New York's 2001 tart cherry production, forecast late-June, is expected to total 13.0 million pounds, down 22 percent from the previous year. Sweet cherry production is forecast at 1000 tons, up 11 percent from a year ago.

New York potato growers planted 23,500 acres of potatoes this year, up 7 percent from last year but 10 percent less than 1999. Acres for harvest is forecast at 23,000 acres, up 8 percent from a year earlier. Dry spring weather allowed a rapid planting pace, well ahead of normal. Crop development has been early.

Nationally, acreage of fall potatoes is estimated at 1.11 million acres, down 10 percent from last year. Harvested area is expected to total 1.09 million acres, down 9 percent from a year ago. The first fall potato yield and production forecast will be released on November 9.
 

U.S. inventory of all hogs and pigs on June 1, 2001, was 59.1 million head. This was slightly below June 2000, but 1 percent above March 1, 2001.

Breeding inventory, at 6.20 million head, was down 1 percent from June 1, 2000, and down 1 percent from March 1, 2001. Market hog inventory, at 52.9 million head, was slightly below last year, but 1 percent above last quarter.

The March-May 2001 U.S. pig crop, at 25.5 million head, was slightly less than 2000, and 3 percent less than 1999. Sows farrowing during this period totaled 2.88 million head, slightly below last year.

The sows farrowed during this quarter represented 46 percent of the breeding herd. The average pigs per litter was 8.88 pigs saved per litter for the March-May 2001 period, compared to 8.86 pigs last year. Pigs saved per litter by size of operation ranged from 7.60 for operations with 1-99 hogs to 9.00 for operations with more than 5,000 hogs and pigs.

U.S. hog producers intend to have 2.92 million sows farrow during the June-August 2001 quarter, 1 percent above the actual farrowings during the same period in 2000, and slightly above 1999. Intended farrowings for September-November, at 2.91 million sows, are 2 percent above the same period in both 2000 and 1999.

Prices received by New York farmers during June for selected commodities were mixed compared with a month earlier. Prices for oats, apples, and milk increased while prices for corn, wheat, hay, and eggs decreased. Soybean prices were unchanged.

Grain corn prices averaged $2.33 per bushel, down 2 cents from both last month and June 2000. Oat prices rose 7 cents from the previous month to $1.48 per bushel, 2 cents less than a year earlier. Wheat, at $2.19 per bushel, was down 2 cents from May but 9 cents more than June a year ago. Soybeans returned $4.60 per bushel, unchanged from last month. Hay averaged $99.00 per ton baled, down $1.00 from May but $21.00 below a year earlier. Apples for fresh market consumption averaged $16.60 per hundredweight (cwt.), up 80 cents from May and 50 cents more than June 2000.

New York dairy farmers received an average of $16.90 per cwt. of milk sold during June, an increase of 70 cents from the previous month and $3.40 above last June. Poultry producers received an average of 48.4 cents per dozen eggs sold, down 0.6 cents from May and 6.3 cents below June 2000.

At the National level, the Preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received in June was 107 based on 1990-02=100, down 1 point from the May Index. Lower prices for cantaloupes, lettuce, sweet corn, and tomatoes were partially offset by higher prices for milk, strawberries, celery, and broilers. The seasonal change in the mix of commodities farmers sell often affects the overall index. Higher seasonal marketings of wheat, grapes, hay, and peaches were offset by lower marketings of strawberries, tomatoes, oranges, and cattle. Compared with June 2000, the Index was 9 points higher. Price increases from June 2000 for milk, broilers, cattle, and wheat were partially offset by lower prices for cantaloupes, corn, soybeans, and eggs.

New York dairy herds produced 996 million pounds of milk during June, down 1 percent from June 2000. A decrease in the number of milk cows was the cause of the decline. The number of milk cows at 673,000 head was down 15,000 head from the previous June. Milk per cow averaged 1,480 pounds, up 1 percent from June 2000.

Milk production in the 20 major states during June totaled 12.0 billion pounds, down 0.5 percent from production in these same states during June 2000. Production per cow averaged 1,552 pounds for June, 5 pounds above June 2000. The number of cows on farms in the 20 major states was 7.75 million head, 61,000 head less than June 2000.

Egg production on New York farms during May totaled 96 million eggs, up 4 percent from May 2000. An increase in the number of layers more than offset a lower rate of lay. Hens that completed a force molt on June 1, 2000 accounted for 2.0 percent of the laying flock.

Laying flocks in the United States produced 7.23 billion eggs during May, up 2 percent from a year earlier. An indication of future egg supply, egg-type chicks hatched in the U.S. during May were up 3 percent from May 2000. The 37.7 million eggs in incubators on June 1, 2001 were up 14 percent from the previous year.

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