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V**IV*I» MUUUgU w„ ober 12 will be assigned for ship* ment in October. If received after ’ that date, offers will be accepted '■ end shipped as soon as outlets are • available. 1 Offers wijl be received in carlots or multiple carlots only from eligable vendors. Such eligible vendors, may be growers, sssbcialions of growers,. or growers* agents. ; * Vendors wishing to sell apples under the program should make ■ their offers direct to J. Parker Lambeth, Jr., Purchase Representative, USD A, ' 609 East Main • Street, Richmond IS, Virginia, by v letter of wire, or telephone Rich* mond 3-6628. * The latest Federal crop report shows that Virginia*! prospective .1961 apple crop will be slightly over 11,000,000 compared to 12,: <680,000 bushels produced last . year. But the Virginia crop is *x- pected to be far smaller in the *. sire of the fruit this year because of a prolonged dry spell during the summer months when the apples normally attain siae. ^ An official base loan rate on the 1991 com crop in Virginia of 41.78 per bushel was announced yesterday by the Production and Marketing Administration througl <3. D. Jordan State PMA chairman f The rate is computed on tin | % basis of 90 per cent of parity oi ■ October 1, which is considered thi beginning of the com marketiot year.-A considerable amount oi ~ y corn has already been harvests ‘‘l in Eastern Virginia, Jordan noted and PMA has been making loam on the basis of an interim rate o: ■ $1.70 announced earlier. Th* rate U replaced by the officia *»te of fl.73 and loan holder: - will receive an adjustment of th difference Upon the loans matur tag. — , * ' . The baa# support rate of $1.77 e 4 is for corn grading at least No. i or No. 4 on the factor of tea : weight only. There are slight pre 5 ®»tams for higher grades and cer " «,? tain'discounts applicable for othei factor*. -- \ ■ 7't Corn placed under Commodity : Credit Corporation loans, offeree through PMA, may be stored h ' ' OCC approved warehouses br h farm bins that meet the require s'meat oi CCC for safe storage. The Tidewater Regional iMarke ta Princess Anne County hea Norfolk, is the only CCC approve) grain storage which is acceptinj corn under loan'at this time. Hoiw f fver, there are other COC approv I «d storage now filled with othe grain which may take com unde loan at a later* date. Th* Tide w .ter Regional Market will als -I, accept soybeans under juice suj
I port loans.: 1 Dry weather has reduced cor ; | crop prospects ta Virginia somi | what. The latest, crop estimate o t 69,760,900 bushels this year, a: I though about 4,000,000 bushel ' {. smaller than 1960, ia mueb abov §> the 1940-49 average of 89,743,00 ■' |: bushels. Jordan also noted that the Nai ion’s com crop this year , will ver Hk*ly bf. ckee to th* 84 bfflk Is
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