No. 310 July 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
Indiana corn prospects on July 1 indicated a production of 263,648,000 bushels. This
is 23 percent more than produced last year and 24 percent more than average. This is the
second largest crop on record, being exceeded only by 1948. This large crop comes as a
result of 9 percent larger acreage than last year, and also a 56.0 bushel yield per acre.
Such a yield if realized will be the second largest on record, exceeded only in 1948. Fields
generally are free of weeds and rarely, if ever, has corn color been so universally good
as this year.
Stocks of old corn on Indiana farms is estimated at 52,384,000 bushels which is 2
percent more than average but only two-thirds of last year.
Wheat yield per acre prospects at 19.0 bushels are the same as a month earlier. However, total production at 26,410,000 bushels is a little less because of additional acreage
loss. Many fields with thin stands are getting weedy as a result of the wet weather. Farm
stocks of old wheat are estimated at 477,000 bushels which is 19 percent less than last
year and 60 percent less than average.
The oats production forecast of 58,548,000 bushels is 12 percent more than last year
and 22 percent more than average. Acreage is the same as last year but 8 percent above
average. Yield per acre at 41.0 bushels is 4.0 bushels more than last year and exceeded
only four times in the years of record. Farm stocks of old oats at 6,835,000 bushels are
6 percent below last year and 14 percent above average.
The acreage of soybeans for all purposes is 1,702,000 of which 1,600,000 will be harvested for beans. The first production forecast will be made August 1st. The farm carryover of old beans at 1,225,000 bushels is about the same as last year but 16 percent more
than average.
Hay production is forecast at 2,694,000 tons or 3 percent more than last year and 6
percent above average. Much of the hay has gotten wet and some will not be taken up.
Of the total hay 998,000 tons will be alfalfa and 1,375,000 will be clover and timothy.
Production of all fruits will be fair, except for peaches which suffered from winter
injury. Commercial apple production is forecast at 1,239,000 bushels which is 21 percent
above last year and 4 percent below average. Peach production at 81,000 bushels is 73
percent below last year and 83 percent below average.
June egg production was 195 million eggs or 1 million more than last year, while the
number of layers was 3 percent less. During the first six months this year production was
2 percent below last year.
Milk production during June was 365 million pounds or 4 percent more than last yeai
and 2 percent above average. Production per cow is at an all time record high level for
this time of the year.
UNITED STATES
Continued improvement in conditions for crop development in June has resulted in
prospects among the most favorable the country has known. Farmers were able to plant
crops on the largest aggregate acreage since 1933. Yield prospects are reported
virtually as good as the best in recent years. Winter wheat prospects improved, despite
adverse harvesting conditions in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, and spring wheat
acreage exceeded planting intentions by nearly a half-million acres. As a result, an all
wheat crop of 1,070 million bushels, 16 million more than on June 1, is now in prospect.
Larger acreages of corn, hay, soybeans and sorghums than intended earlier are growing