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Virginia Rank* Fourth
In Turkey Raising
There’ll be plenty of turkey in Virginia this year.
D. U. Livermore poultry marketing specialist at VPI, says Virginia growers are raising 3,571,000 turkeys, 56 per cent more than in 1950.
The Shenandoah Valley accounts for about three-fourths of the State’s production, while Rockingham county alone, “The turkey capitol of the East,” probably produces more than half.
Nearly two-thirds of the Virginia crop consists of the small Beltsville White turkey, a breed which has been developed to meet consumer demand for small young turkeys throughout the year. In 1951, Virginia will market nearly 1,009,000, Beltsville . Whites . *ut about 16 weeks of age, weighing between 4 and 7 pounds. This means that substantial proportion of the crop will have been marketed and consumed long he-, fore the traditional holiday sea-'
The national turkey crop is estimated" at 16 per_cent above last year. This may be enough, Livermore says, to raise per capita consumption to about 6,6 pounds of turkey meat compared to 5 pounds last year.
Inflation, or no inflation, a production increase of this size should assure consumers of all the turkey they want at farm prices little, if any, higher than pre-Korean levels. The increase in cash receipts to growers this pear will he the result of greater production rather than merely
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