Author: United States Department Of Agriculture

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9780332774220

Excerpt from Cooperative Economic Insect Report, Vol. 22: August 4, 1972 States. In these States the loss was percent of the production. Th1s loss is approximately percent of the total national crop estimated at bushels. 1/ The value of the loss, based on the season average prices recieved by farmers for corn is These loss estimates are only for the States Shown in Table 1, and are based on the counties or d1stricts surveyed during the fall of 1971 within these States. 3/ Table 1 is a composite of State and Federal est1mates. These estimates were pre pared by using production data and prices received released by the Statistical Reporting Service. The basis for the loss estimates was determined by the survey of European corn borer populations during the fall of 1971. 3/ The index of 3 percent loss per borer per plant was used to compute the loss in bushels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.