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Vegetable Prices
Will Change, Say
VPl Specialists
Several cl anges price* are foseen ’or November by VPI spec alists.
In their p riotic run-doton on what vegetable growers can. expect for their :rops, Dr.J. L. Maxton, agricultural economist, and L. C Beame-, associate horticulturist, say'; j
Reduced arreagej and production of fall lima beans should strengthen prices to $3.00 a bushel.
Snap bean production is up as a resujt of good rains. Prices of about $2.00 r ft bushel are expected. I An increas- in fall acreage of broccoli and a 3\% increase in production o\er 1954 will result in lower pri<es of around $1.50 per 1 Vi bus! el bo^c. ^ Late fall cabbage acreage is
down J2% frjom 19j54. Early fall cabbage prod ictionis down 5%. Prices of $1.50 a j50-pound bag are expected. Acreage of early cucumbers is expected to yi eld an average crop, with prices of around $2.00 a bushel.
Heavy sup dies of lettuce are expected to k< ep prices near $2.00 per 2-dozen carton. Virginia k; be acreage is about average, and good yields are expected with averages prices of about 65 centp a bushel.
acreage and producpeppers
should re9%
from 1954, and prices will be around $1.50 a bushel.
387,000,000 buscels _,f _r potato prices on the weak side (111.50 per 100 lbs.) until July;
crop of early spinA drop in tion of fall duce the crop
An averagt
62.3%