No. 314 November 1,  1951
INDIANA CROPS AND LIVESTOCK
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
COOPERATING WITH 
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
INDIANA
November reports made no change in the prospective yield of 55.0 bushels per acre,
for a total production of 258,940,000 bushels. Husking was well along for the season at
:heend of October. There was little immature corn in spite of some frost in late September.
Soybean harvest was completed by November 1. The yield is now estimated as 23.5
ushels per acre, or slightly above pre-harvest expectations. Production of 37,600,000
jshels is the largest the state has produced.
The potato estimate remains unchanged at 240 bushels per acre and production of
;,08O,OOO bushels. Sweet potatoes averaged 110 bushels per acre and production was
"OOO bushels.
Latest returns confirm the drouth damage to tobacco with an average yield 1,000
pounds and production 11,105,000 pounds which is only 86 percent of last year.
Pasture condition at 82 percent of normal is ten points lower than last year though
jeven points above the ten-year average. Warmer than average weather for October
-.vas favorable for pasture.
The apple production in commercial counties is still estimated as 1,434,000 bushels
r 41 percent more than last year. The estimate of pear production is slightly higher
at 159,000 bushels. Grape production is down from earlier indications to 1,700 tons.
October milk production was 298 million pounds, two percent below last year but two
percent above the ten-year average. The production per  JL,, ltUU htUli though below
last year's record. 
Egg production in October was 176 above last year.
Eggs per one hundred layers was l^SO^fgalfflMYMmtH'.whiclr is a newirecord for the
•eason. Ten months' production this year fsulJiji^Hnillion eggs, and in ^950 was 1,940
nillion eggs. 
All-crop production prospects declined \ siightl||Ui!lrirtg October, chiefly because of
reductions in corn and cotton. Mostly favorable conditions for maturing and harvesting
ate-growing crops in much of October, however, helped to maintain jjie volume at third
"ighest of record. In parts of Minnesota, North Dakota and" Montana^jBBt conditions
prevented completion of harvest of some small grain and flax^-a^fKr-frTuie northwestern
Corn Belt salvaging of frosted immature cornwaa_a^probtem. In most sections corn cured
*ell, and harvest of soybeans, sorghums, riceand root crops proceeded rapidly, with
harvesting losses at a minimum. Killing frosts occurred generally early in November,
dipping deep into the South with snow or rain that was mostly beneficial to fall-sown
'rops. In virtually all areas soil moisture is now adequate to ample. Fall seedings of
jrains, cover crops and new meadows are mostly in satisfactory to excellent condition.
Corn production is now estimated at 3,088 million bushels, about 17 million bushels
ess than on October 1. Most of this reduction in prospect is due to poorer outturns, both
in quantity and quality, in the northwestern Corn Belt where conditions have been about
'ormal, but not as favorable as were desirable for salvaging the immature portion of
•lie crop damaged by September frosts. Slow progress of the corn crop had caused concern
throughout the growing season, but the extended growing season in the eastern Corn
Belt particularly, permitted the crop to mature satisfactorily there. Harvesting of the
rop was started later than usual and has been retarded by November snow storms. In
many areas, corn still has a high moisture content, too high for safe cribbing. Because
rf the frost damage in the northwestern Corn Belt, much corn is "soft" or chaffy and
•eeders will require more than the usual quantity to obtain desired livestock gains. Most
01 this poor quality corn is in areas where livestock is available to use it in the forms
 grazing, fodder or silage, particularly where it is too poor to warrant harvesting as
?rain, but some "cash corn" areas were also affected.
A seven percent reduction in cotton prospects from the October 1 estimate resulted
^en the effect of lateness of plantings, summer drought and insect damage became
apparent as picking progressed rapidly. Slight decreases in exP^*iA*utt«©Rfr^fr^iown
•or buckweat, rice, potatoes, dry beans, peanuts, broomcorn, afrpTCsrVrTa pears. \)n the
other hand, rapid harvest of soybeans with a minimum of harvesHlJBJtASr^ improved
Production prospects to 278 million bushels. Slight improvements over October 1 fore-
casts are noted for sorghum grain, tobacco, sugar beets, sweetpotatoes and pecans.
The net effect of these changes in production prospects is to push the index of 1951