No. 346 July 1, 1954
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
Crop outlook in Indiana on July 1 was excellent, witha Record wheat yield in-.pros-rjdct,
scorn yield exceeded only in 1948, and the oats yield likely to be well above average.
Prospects for corn in Indiana on July 1 were for the second largest crop on record.
The acreage for harvest at 4,693,000 acres is the same as last year. With a yield of 54.0
bushels per acre, production is expected to be 253,422,000 bushels which is 5 percent above
list year and 14 percent above the 10 year average. Stocks of old corn on farms on
July 1 at 79,881,000 bushels are 12 percent above last year and 39 percent above average.
The yield of wheat is considerably better than expected earlier. The 29.0 bushel yield
b one bushel above last year's record. Acreage for harvest at 1,269,000 is 23 percent
Wow last year. Total production is forecast to be 36,801,000 bushels, 20 percent below
list year, but 19 percent above average. Farm stocks of old wheat at 461,000 bushels
fere about one-half of average.
The oats acreage for harvest at 1,329,000 is 5 percent above last year. With a 39.0
bushel yield per acre in prospect, total production will be 51,831,000 bushels or 12 percent
above average and last year. Farm stocks of old oats on farms July 1 were 5,545,000
bushels, or 18 percent below last year.
Soybeans for all purposes were planted on 1,983,000 acres, an increase of 7 percent over
last year. Farmers intentions on July 1 were to harvest 1,886,000 acres for beans, an
increase of 7 percent over last year and 24 percent more than the 1943-52 average. Farm
stocks of soybeans on July 1 were 369,000 bushels, or about one-tenth of last year's
extremely heavy stocks.
The cool May temperatures, several frosts and shortage of moisture in June lowered
ray prospects to 2,259,000 tons or 9 percent below last year and 10 percent below average.
Included in the total are 958,000 tons of alfalfa and a million tons of clover mixtures.
Pasture condition at 79 percent of normal is 4 points below last year and 13 points below
average.
Commercial apple production is expected to be 1,290,000 bushels, 10 percent more
than last year and 4 percent below average. Peach production is forecast at 460,000
bushels, which is 4 percent below average.
Egg production in June was 238 million, or 10 percent above last year, resulting from
there being 9 percent more layers on farms and a higher rate of lay. For the first half
it the year production was 1,611 million compared with 1,513 million a year ago.
Milk production per cow continues at a high level. Total production for June of 401
million pounds was 2 percent above last year and 7 percent above the 10 year average.
UNITED STATES
Jhe fourth-largest volume of all crops is now in prospect for 1954, at over 102 percent
n the new 1947-49 base. This compares with indexes of 103 percent in both 1952 and
'953, and the record of 106 percent in 1948. In computing the index at this early stage,
a.lowances are made for some crops not currently estimated—such as cotton, soybeans
and sorghum—at an average yield on estimated acreages. The acreage of crops to be
farvested is slightly below average, but a record all-crop yield is expected. The tentative
'd index, at 109 percent of the new 1947-49 base, is 1 point higher than the previous
rt*ord set in 1948.
ed grains make up a major portion of the all-crop volume. They include the second-
arSestcorn crop of 3.3 billion bushels; a record outturn of 1,545 million bushels of oats;
much larger than average barley crop of 373 million bushels. The sorghum crop is
grown on a near-record acreage, but yield prospects are extremely uncertain. The
crop will be 107y2 million tons, the third-largest on record, and will be fairly well
tnbuted according to needs, except in the current severe drought area.