OCR Text |
Show Farm News CROPS The 1980 season will go down in the record books as a generally good one for Utah farmers. One key to good crops in our State is water and this has been a good water year. Supplies for irrigation have been well above normal all season. The .hay and small grain crops did best this year as the cool rainy spring seemed to be to their liking. Both wheat and barley produced large crops, with barley setting a new State record. Fruit made an average crop in 1980. All varieties except apples were off from last year's very good crop, but total fruit tonnage was about the average of the last five years. Corn gave us the most trouble this season. The cool spring delayed planting and germination, and got the crop off to a slow start. It was nip-and-tuck whether the crop would mature before frost, and in some areas it didn't. Scattered frost on Sept. 21 caught some of the corn in the pre-dent pre-dent stage and caused loss of both quality and tonnage of silage. Grain corn harvest has not started, so yields are not yet know. ' |