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Seed Crops
1936
1947
Forage and Cover Crop
Seeds, Vegetable Seeds,
Certified Seed Potatoes,
Hybrid Seed Corn, Sugar
Beets for Seed, etc.
STATISTICAL YEARBOOK
Containing county, district, and
state estimates of acreage, production, price, and receipts from
farm marketings for 60 kinds of
seeds. Assembled and prepared
for publication by the Oregon
State College Extension Service, Agricultural Economics
Section.
Oregon State System of Higher Education
Federal Cooperative Extension Service
Oregon State College
November 1948
Extension Bulletin 694
EXPLANATION OF TERMS
(Unless otherwise noted)
ESTIMATES are expressions of judgment regarding what is true at
any given time based upon partial data, past relationships, calculation, appraisement, and general knowledge of the subject under consideration;
they are published subject to revision. Tables or data marked "preliminary" are especially subject to further consideration and revision.
HARVESTED ACREAGE is estimated acreage from which all or any part
of the crop is harvested.
FARM PRODUCTION relates to the total outturn of the given commodity, irrespective of Use, whether sold, consumed by the farm family,
or consumed in production of further farm products on the farm where
grown.
AVERAGE FARM PRICE is the weighted average of price received by
farmers at usual marketing points for quantities sold during a crop year.
CASH RECEIPTS FROM FARM MARKETINGS are intended to represent
the money income of farmers from crop and animal products and are
obtained by evaluating, at the average farm price, quantities produced
during a crop year and sold or held for sale. These data, therefore, are
for the marketing season or crop year and should not be confused with
estimates intended to represent receipts from sales by farmers during a
calendar year irrespective of year in which produced.
FARM VALUE may be obtained by evaluating farm production at the
average farm price and would differ from crop year cash farm income by
including value of quantities used on the farm where produced.
TYPE-OF-FARMING DISTRICTS
Much of the data for the state has been broken down into the following districts
District 1. Willamette Valley counties: Benton, Clackamas, Lane,
Linn, Marion, Multnomah, Polk, Washington, and Yamhill.
District 2. Coast and Lower Columbia counties: Clatsop, Columbia,
Coos, Curry, Lincoln, and Tillamook.
District 3. Southern Oregon counties: Douglas, Jackson, and Josephine.
District 4. Columbia Basin counties: Gilliam, Hood River, Morrow,
Sherman, Umatilla, Wasco, and Wheeler. .
District 5. Snake River Basin counties: Baker, Malheur, Union, and
Wallowa.
District 6. South Central counties: Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Klamath, and Lake.
Oregon's Seed Crops 1936-1947
Production and Income Estimates*
by
B E. BLACK
TOTAL CASH RECEIPTS from farm marketings of Oregon seed
THE
crops exceeded $17,700,000 in 1946.
These receipts came from
farm sales of over 225 million pounds of field and vegetable seeds not
including flower seeds and grains sold for seed purposes. Seed crops
were grown commercially in at least 33 of Oregon's 36 counties in
1946. Cash receipts from the seed crops averaged $9,742,000 for the
years 1940 through 1944, and $3,681,000 for the 1936 through 1939
period, but receipts from farm marketings of vegetable seeds, certi-
fied seed potatoes, and a few minor items are not included in the
estimate for those years. See Table 1 for a summary of Oregon's
seed crops.
Oregon ranks high nationally as a producer of some of the principal seed crops. About 75 per cent of the nation's hairy vetch, and
almost all the common and Willamette vetch are grown in Oregon.
Purple and Hungarian vetch, and Austrian peas are grown extensively in the state.
Clovers grown for seed include common red clover, also Midland and Cumberland red, alsike, small white, crimson, subterranean,
and in smaller amounts strawberry clover and sweet clover. Much
common, Grimm, ladak, orestan, and ranger alfalfa seed are grown
in Oregon.
Oregon supplies almost all the nation's common and perennial
ryegrass seed. Chewings, alta, and creeping red fescue and Highland, Astoria, Seaside, and velvet bentgrasses are grown for seed in
large amounts in the state. Canary grass, bluegrasses, tall oat grass,
brome grass, timothy, sudan, meadow foxtail, and other grass seeds
are also found in commercial production in Oregon.
"The estimates published herein are based on information assembled from county agricultural agents, growers, processors, shippers, dealers, extension specialists, experiment station staff, and other informed persons, The cooperation of a great many people, who gave
voluntarily of their time and information when interviewed personally or by questionnaire,
has contributed much to the completeness and accuracy of this report Such cooperation is
gratefully acknowledged.
This bulletin was prepared for publication by B. E. Black, formerly Assistant Extension
Statistician, under the direction of L. R. Breithaupt, Extension Agricultural Economist, and
Agricultural Statistics Project leader for the extension service at Oregon State College.
Data on acreage, production, price, and value of farm marketings of forage seed crops
for the years 1936 to 1942 were taken from Extension Bulletin 613, published in 1943.
County acreage estimates for other years were prepared by B. W. Coyle, Extension Agricultural Economist (Statistics). The sums of the county estimates of acreage and production
are in agreement with state estimates by the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics on hairy,
purple, and Hungarian vetch; ladino, small white, and crimson clover; alfalfa; common and
perennial ryegrass; crested wheat grass; and sudan grass seeds.
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EXTENSION BULLETIN 694
A long list of vegetable seeds including cabbage, onion, beet,
carrot, lettuce, swiss chard, melon, squash, pumpkin, cucumber, garden
beans and peas, and others are grown commercially by Oregon
farmers. Garden type peas grown for seed, together with a substantial acreage of over-ripe canning peas harvested as seed, constitute a major part of the vegetable seed industry in the state.
Oregon seed crops are marketed in widely separated areas over
the United States. The demand for Oregon grown cover crop seeds
in the southern states is largely responsible for Oregon's vetch and
pea seed industry. Clovers and grasses go into pastures and cover
crops in many states. Vegetable seeds are grown here under contract
for large firms which distribute seed all over the nation. Oregon's
production of hybrid seed corn and certified seed potatoes is largely
for use here or in neighboring states.
Table 1.
OREGON SEED CROPSI ACREAGE HARVESTED AND CASH RECEIPTS FROM FARM A1ARKETINGS, OREGON, 1936-1946.
Group and item
Pea and Vetch Seed
1936-1939
average
1940-1944
average
1946
Acres
Dollars
78,300
1,330,000
215,800
5,409,000
159,900
4,178,300
Acres
Dollars
49,700
1,526,000
46,200
1,613,000
50,380
3,204,000
48,300
825,000
101,900
2,720,000
143,200
8,401,600
4,900
3,750
436,900
6,000
5,850
1,506,000
374,800
9,742,000
363,080
17,726,800
Clover and Alfalfa Seed
Grass Seed
Acres
Dollars
Vegetable Seed
Acres
Dollars
Other Seed,
Acres
Dollars
Total Accounted
Acres
1,300'
177,600
3,681,000
Dollars
* Unavailable.
'Includes certified seed potatoes, sugar beets for seed, lotus seed, hybrid seed corn, and
miscellaneous seed crops.
'Includes certified seed potatoes, lotus seed, and sugar beets for seed only.
Location of Oregon's Seed Crops
The Willamette Valley counties produce most of the state's Austrian peas and vetches and about one-half of the clover acreage is in
that district. About two-thirds of the grass seed and a large part of
the vegetable and sugar beets for seed and most of the hybrid seed
corn acreage is in the Willamette Valley. Total receipts from seed
crops in this area neared $13,000,000 in 1946. Linn County led all
other counties in the district with a total of over $4,500,000. Common
rye grass was the leading seed crop in Linn County and the district.
Table 2,
CASH RECEIPTS FROM FARM MARKETIN GS OF SEED CROPS, OREGON, 1946.
Austrian
'
District and
pea and
vetch seed
county
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
$
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
District 2
312,900
289,100
510,600
518,100
492,700
27,900
504,900
454,700
792,800
$3,903,700
Clatsop
Columbia
1,400
7,100
Coos
Vegetable
Clover and
alfalfa
seed'
Grass
seed'
686,300
258,600
620,400
3,790,700
870,800
1,300
343,300
322,900
303,600
$
$1,034,200
$7,197,900
$
$
$
$
41,300
187,800
29,200
196,600
176,600
4,100
81,000
161,100
156,500
$
9,400
Curry
Lincoln
Tillamook
trict 2
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
Total, District 3
District 4
Gilliam
Hood Rive
$
Deschutes
Grant
105,900
$
$
11,600
135,500
144,700
291,800
$
200
$
1,400
$
3,900
900
300
36,300
500
4,000
6,700
$
87,300
Total, Dis-
Crook
$
36,300
Baker
Malheur
Union
Wallowa
trict 5
District 6
86,400
7,800
11,700
$
Morrow
Sherman
Umatilla
Wasco
Wheeler
Total, District 4
District 5
9,400
9,300
$
273,000
50,700
200
28,300
437,500
10,700
200
$
,
31,400
5,100
$
36,500
$
$12,976,400
788,800
1,211,700
4,580,600
1,720,500
324,000
962,500
974,100
1,260,900
$
295,000
67,200
200
700
1,000
20,800
$
364,100
400
$
129,800
221,100
156,800
$
507,700
$
200
72,700
400
73,500
4,400
1,500
47,700
1,900
400
400
1,500
5,800
800
2,600
8,500
4,600
$
56,100
$
34,500
140,900
$
63,300
584,300
776,000
1,200
$
175,400
$ 1,424,800
$
63,100
28,500
1,900
678,000
1,000
$
476,700
$
$
10,300
5,800
1,200
$
$
800
244,200
164,600
17,800
11,700
2,900
864,700
79,300
31,300
$1,385,200
$
$4,178,300
$3,204,000
$8,401,600
13,200
840,600
$
91,800
Klamath
Lake
$ 1,153,300
200
324,600
$
Harney
Jefferson
Total
receipts
112,800
53,300
51,500
75,200
180,400
290,700
33,300
35,400
8,000
20,600
700
800
Total, Dis-
seed
and other
seed crops'
680,900
1,700
200
100
600
1,000
900
1,000
149,700
100
730,000
6,300
$
317,600
199,500
20,000
12,700
3,900
1,757,600
86,400
Total, Dis-
trict 6
State total
$
153,200
$
828,000
$1,942,900
$ 2,397,700
$17,726,800
'Includes some items not included in separate commodity tables.
=Includes vegetable seeds, certified seed potatoes, sugar beets for seed, hybrid seed
corn, mustard seed and miscellaneous items.
The coast and lower Columbia counties produce bentgrass seed,
some red clover, and other seed crops. Farmers in these counties rel
ceived over $360,000 for their seed in 1946. Clatsop County was the
principal seed producing county in this district with nearly $300,000
total cash receipts. Seaside and Astoria bentgrasses are the main
items grown in Clatsop County and the district.
The southern Oregon counties grow Austrian peas and vetch,
clover and alfalfa seed, sugar beets for seed, grass seed, and other
seed crops. An estimated $507,700 were derived from sales of seed
crops grown in this district in 1946. Ladino clover was the principal
crop, returning over $269,000 to growers. Jackson County led the
area with $221,100 received from seed crops that year.
Alfalfa is the only important seed crop of the Columbia Basin
counties, except Umatilla County, where garden type peas are harvested for seed, and Austrian peas and mustard have been grown in
recent years. Cash receipts from seed crops are estimated at $56,100,
in 1946. Umatilla County leads in seed production in this district.
The Snake River Basin counties produce grass seed, clover seed,
alfalfa seed, Austrian peas and vetch, vegetable seeds, and certified
seed potatoes. Cash receipts from sale of seed crops were about
$1,425,000 in 1946. Union County, with an estimated $776,000,
had the highest income.
The south central counties produce clover and alfalfa seed
and certified seed potatoes, with Klamath County growing grass
seed, especially bents. Cash receipts from the entire area exceeded
$2,397,000 in 1946. Over $1,700,000 of this amount came from
Klamath County.
For further information on distribution of cash receipts from
seed crops by counties in 1946 see Table 2.
Austrian peas and vetch seed
In 1946 an estimated 42 per cent of Oregon's total seed crop
acreage was devoted to the production of Austrian peas and vetches.
The acreage of Austrian peas and vetch grown in Oregon declined from 284,000 acres in 1942 to 173,300 acres in 1945 and
159,900 acres in 1946. Available figures indicate a further decline
to 150,400 acres in 1947 despite an increase in the pea and hairy
vetch acreage that year. An estimated 14,419,000 pounds of Austrian peas and 55,580,000 pounds of vetch were produced in 1946.
Cash receipts from farm marketings of peas and vetch seed is estimated at $4,178,300 in 1946, compared to $7,847,000 in 1942 and
$1,162,000 in 1936. Of the 1946 total, an estimated $558,000 resulted
from farm marketings of Austrian peas, $1,325,000 from hairy vetch,
OREGON'S SEED CROPS
$1,913,000 from Willamette and common vetch, and $382,300 from
other vetches and mixed peas and vetch.
The average price paid to the grower for Austrian peas in 1946
was $4.15 per hundred pounds. Average price for hairy vetch seed
was about $15.55 per hundred pounds. The average for Willamette
and common vetch was around $6.00 per hundredweight. Hungarian
vetch brought $5.30 per hundred pounds and purple vetch $6.00 per
hundred. Average prices received by the growers in 1942 were
$4.90 for Austrian peas, $9.90 for hairy vetch, $4.90 for common
vetch, $6.00 for Willamette vetch, $4.85 for Hungarian and $5.00
per hundred pounds for purple vetch. On many farms these crops
are grown with a support crop, so considerable income is derived
from such crops in addition to that from the sale of vetch seed and
peas. For detailed information on acreage, production, prices, and
cash receipts from farm marketings of Austrian peas and vetch, see
Tables 3 through 14.
Table 3. PEAS AND VETCH SEED ESTIMATES, BY KINDS, OREGON, 1936-1946.
Seed and year harvested
Austrian Peas
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Hairy vetch
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Willamette and common vetch
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Hungarian vetch
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Purple vetch
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Mixed vetch and vetch and peas
1940-1944 average
1942
1946
Area
harvested
Farm
production
(clean seed)
Average
farm price
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
per
hundredweight
Acres
Pounds
27,100
55,500
78,000
62,000
20,000
25,000
14,500
20,152,000
47,860,000
74,100,000
68,200,000
19,000,000
21,000,000
14,419,000
$ 2.90
33,600
96,200
125,000
80,000
72,000
47,000
38,000
8,238,000
23,320,000
30,000,000
21,600,000
18,000,000
11,300,000
8,700,000
6.90
9.45
9.90
11.70
11.00
10.80
15.55
516,000
2,034,000
2,750,000
2,400,000
1,880,000
1,160,000
1,325,000
9,800
51,500
58,000
45,000
68,000
95,000
2,900
4,519,000
21,480,000
21,600,000
23,000,000
34,000,000
49,900,000
1,300,000
3.25
4.90
5.40
6.15
6.05
5.80
6.00
116,000
949,000
950,000
1,202,000
1,748,000
2,460,000
1,913,000
7,000
9,900
3,258,000
4,590,000
9,400,000
4,500,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
1,300,000
2.95
4.80
4.85
6.75
6.10
4.80
5.30
86,800
207,600
422,000
280,000
167,000
87,000
62,300
442,500
834,000
820,000
500,000
450,000
,
640,000
880,000
4.15
5.10
5.00
5.60
7.00
7.10
6.00
16,900
33,200
35,000
24,000
28,000
40,000
48,000
8,167,000
8,000,000
4,334,000
3.20
4.00
260,000
290,000
272,000
20,000
10,000
6,000
4,200
2,900
900
2,700
3,000
2,000
1,500
2,100
2,500
4.20
4.90
4.90
5.00
3.50
4.15
$
546,000
1,925,000
3,400,000
3,129,000
884,000
684,000
558,000
Table 4. AUSTRIAN PEA SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
District and county
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
Other counties
Columbia
Douglas
Umatilla
Baker
Malheur
Union
Crook
Deschutes
Klamath
State total
Farm
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
100
500
100
600
400
115,000
469,000
114,000
700,000
363,000
$4.25
4.00
4.10
4.25
4.25
4,500
17,400
4,300
27,500
14,500
700
6,100
2,500
776,000
5,390,000
2,537,000
4.40
4.35
4.05
31,700
216,400
95,100
11,000
10,464,000
$4.25
$411,400
50
$4.25
4.20
4.00
4.00
$
50
50
400
42,000
10,000
980,000
12,000
98,000
2,360,000
47,000
46,000
360,000
4.50
4.00
4.25
4.25
3.85
1,600
300
36,300
500
4,000
87,300
2,000
1,800
12,800
14,500
14,419,000
$4.15
$558,000
30
800
20
100
2,000
$
Table 5.
District and
county*
District I
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, Dis-
trict 1
District 2
Columbia
AUSTRIAN PEA SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
4-year
average
5-year
average
1936-1939
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
1,088
3,400
2,675
6,625
1,925
150
1,000
100
500
500
100
500
100
600
400
100
500
50
1,200
400
1,100
5,350
2,725
909
5,800
1,350
2,460
5,000
14
3,000
14,300
6,560
1,000
10,000
4,000
700
6,100
2,500
2,500
8,000
4,000
24,888
39,393
17,325
11,000
16,750
37
54
70
50
20
37
54
70
50
20
147
30
30
40
30
30
40
4,200
2,000
800
3,500
4,223
2,000
800
3,500
164
100
200
4,000
100
2,000
1,000
75
Total, Dis-
trict 2
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
19
19
Total, District 3
185
District 4
Gilliam
Morrow
Sherman
Umatilla
14
3'
6
Total, District 4
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Wallowa
Total, Dis-
trict 5
District 6
Crook
Deschutes
Klamath
Lake
Total, District 6
Other counties __
353
736
8,342
380
50
20
100
10
353
9,622
4,350
2,120
1,110
128
1,580
153
740
1,056
50
50
400
200
74
125
200
800
100
2,023
1,225
500
375
14,500
21,795
1,708
100
75
114
27,100
25,000
State total
55,500
* Counties listed only where Austrian pea seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
"One year only.
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Table 6. HAIRY VETCH SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
District and county
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
Other counties
Clatsop
Douglas
Josephine
Crook
Deschutes
Grant
Klamath
Lake
State total
Average
farm price
per
hundred-
Cash
weight
receipts
from farm
marketings
8,000
150
5,000
1,528,000
51,000
1,910,000
1,115,000
76,000
16,000
1,6g0,000
50,000
2,090,000
$15.00
15.25
14.85
15.00
15.35
14.65
14.40
12.25
14.85
$201,800
6,900
249,300
149,200
102,700
21,300
206,400
53,500
310,600
36,750
8,466,000
$14.60
$1,301,700
25
45
5,000
75,000
50,000
60,000
28,000
8,000
2,000
6,000
$14.65
15.25
15.25
16.00
16.00
16.00
16.00
16.00
600
1,000
7,000
8,300
4,000
1,200
400
800
38,000
8,700,000
$15.55
$1,325,000
Farm
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
8,000
250,
10,000
5,000
300
50
500
100
300
200
60
20
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Table 7.
District and
county"
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, Dis-
trict 1
District 2
HAIRY Vsscsx SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
4-year
average
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
6,700
875
3,726
7,000
1,212
15,000
2,830
15,300
15,340
5,000
10,000
300
12,000
4,000
8,000
250
10,000
5,000
300
16,000
2,887
2,500
8,500
17,300
2,500
18,700
9,000
200
8,500
8,000
150
5,000
9,000
300
4,500
33,413
92,150
44,550
36,750
46,700
25
25
25
25
131
Lincoln
Total, Dis-
trict 2
Total, District 3
211
50'
501
District 4
Morrow
Umatilla
trict 4
District 5
Harney
Jefferson
Klamath
Lake
1,200
200
500
300
100
100
100
1,533
1,500
600
400
350
600
300
200
60
200
200
1
2
26
Total, Dis-
Grant
1,360
70
103
86
Baker
Malheur
Union
Crook
Deschutes
300
50
36
Total, Dis-
trict 5
District 6
50
55
29
127
Coos
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine ......
500
50
180
100
11,000
5,500
,
Clatsop
Columbia
District 3
5-year
average
1936-1939
29
12'
125
290
1,830
8
4
5
20
45
44
10
Total, Dis-
950
137
2,191
trict 6
47,000
96,200
33,600
State total
* Counties listed only where hairy vetch seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
12
30
625
430
38,000
47,555
Table 8. WILLAMETTE AND COMMON VETCH SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Farm
Area
harvested
District and county
production
(clean seed)
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District I
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
Total, District 3
Other counties
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
Pounds
Acres
District 1
Average
farm price
6,500
10,000
10,000
16,000
15,000
250
15,000
9,000
16,000
1,970,000
5,230,000
2,260,000
5,500,000
7,540,000
140,000
5,195,000
3,605,000
7,470,000
$6.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
93,400
250,300
107,100
260,700
357,100
6,600
246,200
170,900
354,100
97,750
38,960,000
$6.00
$1,846,400
3,000
500
300
992,000
165,000
100,000
$6.00
6.00
6.00
47,000
7,800
4,700
3,800
1,257,000
$6.00
59,500
800
Clatsop
Columbia
Lincoln
350
50
50
16,500
116,000
16,500
$6.00
6.00
6.00
5,500
800
State total
102,000
40,366,000
$6.00
$1,913,000
Table 9. WILLAMETTE AND COMMON VETCH SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
District and
county*
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marton
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, Dis-
trict 1
4-year
average
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
765
525
1,225
2,580
6,000
15,000
9,000
15,000
12,000
6,500
10,000
10,000
16,000
15,000
250
3,000
10,000
14,000
8,500
9,000
2,297
630
1,825
9,355
47,865
50
202
21
1,525
538
25
Douglas
Jackson
fasephine
Total, District 3
Other counties
80
15,000
9,000
16,000
14,000
5,000
14,000
90,750
97,750
77,580
100
250
50
350
200
50
10
101
Lincoln
trict 2
District 3
250
12,000
6,500
15,000
101
Coos
Total, Dis-
3,71,0
5,640
8,536
5,832
305
8,730
3,880
8,640
District 2
Clatsop
Columbia
5-year
average
1936-1939
50
50
243
350
450
260
165
2,735
347
310
3,000
500
400
3,000
1,000
138
500
300
350
150
303
3,392
3,900
3,800
1,500
92
102,000
95,000
51,500
9,800
State total
*CoMrties listed only where Willamette and common vetch seed is grown.
n Preliminary.
'One year only.
13
79,340
Table 0.
PURPLE VETCH SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Counties
Lane
Linn
Douglas
State total
Table 11.
District and
county'
Average
farm price
Farm
per
Cash
receipts
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
hundredweight
from farm
marketings
Acres
450
50
2,000
Pounds
183,000
20,500
676,500
$6.00
6.00
6.00
$10,000
1,000
37,000
2,500
880,000
$6.00
$48,000
PURPLE VETCH SEED ACREAGE, .1036-1947.
4-year
average
,
5-year
average
1936-1939
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
450
450
50
50
50
50
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
33
22
325
Linn
Marion
55
8
335
83
9
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
51
5'
60
Total, District 1
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Total, District 3
District 5
Malheur
21
500
492
500
500
100
400
2,180
1,600
2,000
1,800
400
2,191
1,600
2,000
1,800
2,500
1,900
11
3
Union
14
Total, Dis-
trict 5
17
2,100
State total
900
2,700
* Counties listed only where purple vetch seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
Table 12.
HUNGARIAN VETCH SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
District and county
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
District 1 and state total
Farm
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
4,700
12,300
2,400
18,200
13,300
200
500
100
800
900
95,000
270,500
48,000
368,000
270,500
$5.45
5.00
5.45
5.45
5.40
100
100
200
80,000
54,000
114,000
5.00
5.75
4.80
3,600
2,800
5,000
2,900
1,300,000
$5.30
$ 62,300
14
$
Table 13.
4-year
average
District and
county*
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
888
525
1,138
2,462
500
530
2,210
562
2,480
2,580
200
500
100
1,500
1,500
200
500
100
800
900
100
500
100
100
150
100
100
200
200
4,150
2,900
2,600
2,900
2,600
7,000
3
5-year
average
1936-1939
337
463
687
Total, District 1
District
HUNGARIAN VETCH SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
2,
370
440
500
9,674
Total, Dis-
trict 3
226
50
9,900
4,200
7,000
State total
* Counties listed only where Hungarian vetch seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
Table 14.
75
160
50
218
gi
Douglas
Jackson
15
550
1,000
MIXED VETCH, AND PEA AND VETCH SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Farm
production
(clean seed)
District and county
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
Pounds
District 1
200,000
35,000
1,510,000
1,226,000
112,000
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District
1
17,000
11,100
28,000
4,309,000
$270,900
4,334,000
State total
15
8,500
2,200
137,500
61,500
5,100
375,000
251,000
600,000
25,000
Douglas
$
$
1,100
$272,000
16
EXTENSION BULLETIN 694
Clover seed
In 1946 over 11 per cent of Oregon's seed crop acreage was devoted to the production of clovers. The total acreage of clover seed
grown in Oregon declined from 45,125 acres in 1942 to 31,300 acres
in 1945, then increased to 44,500 acres in 1946. Available estimates
place the 1947 total around 49,000 acres. Total production of all
clover seed was about 8,000,000 pounds in 1946.
Cash receipts from farm rnarketings of clover seed were estimated over $3,000,000 in 1946, or an increase of 90 per cent over the
1942 figure.
In 1946 alsike -clover contributed about $1,336,000 to the total
cash receipts from farm marketings of clover seed, red clover $889,000,
crimson clover $65,000, ladino clover $433,000, white clover $159,000,
and subterranean clover about $169,000.
Average prices paid to Oregon farmers were $33.65 per hundredweight for alsike clover seed, $39.65 for red clover, $15.00 for crim-
son clover, $124.70 for ladino clover, $58.00 for white clover, and
$53.80 for subterranean clover. In 1942 farmers received $20 per
hundred pounds for alsike, $20.50 for red clover, $8.00 for crimson
clover, $70.00 for ladino clover, and $40.00 for white clover seed.
Acreages, production, average farm price and cash receipts from
farm marketings of clover seed for the years 1936-1946 are shown in
detail in Tables 15 through 27.
CLOVER SEED ESTIMATES, BY KINDS, OREGON, 1936-1946.
...------
.,.-.'
/
j
1
k._.,-- ...-
Seed and year harvested
Alsike clover
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Red clover
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Crimson clover
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Ladino clover
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Small white clover
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
from farm
marketings
hundredweight
Pounds
Acres
3,915,000
3,908,000
4,140,000
2,572,000
3,077,000
2,067,000
4,045,000
$16.95
20.60
20.00
2,7.15
30.35
30.65
33.65
624,000
728,000
800,000
675,000
914,000
625,000
1,336,000
20,400
11,700
12,000
10,000
12,000
11,000
19,000
2,925,000
2,124,000
1,740,000
1,569,000
1,435,000
1,435,000
2,400,000
19.90
21.65
20.50
30.15
32.85
33.15
39.65
552,000
314,000
340,000
431,000
429,000
433,000
889,000
350
4,400
10,000
2,500
1,500
2,000
2,300
118,000
1,238,000
3,300,000
680,000
450,000
600,000
460,000
7.80
9.20
8.00
9.75
9,000
116,000
255,000
64,000
50,000
73,000
65,000
1,900
3,900
2,700
2,800
4,900
6,200
6,000
168,000
238,000
150,000
200,000
270,000
430,000
390,000
57.70
91.80
70.00
116.00
170.00
147.00
124.70
95,000
203,000
98,000
215,000
425,000
617,000
433,000
1,800
2,000
2,300
2,600
2,100
2,300
175,000
240,000
230,000
220,000
140,000
300,000
51.65
43.00
50.00
60.00
74.00
58.00
87,000
100,000
110,000
127,000
99,000
159,000
555
530
600
800
500
300
400
133,000
9.60
10,600
7,800'
9,500
320
375
39,000
50,000
75.00
35.00
26,000
17,200
25
5,500
331,000
49.00
53.80
2,500
169,000
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Strawberry clover
19392
1940-19413
1942
1946
82,000'
85,000
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
Subterranean clover
19412
Cash
receipts
per
Farm
17,400
17,500
17,500
12,500
14,500
9,000
12,500
Sweet clover
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
. 1946
Average
farm price
0
1,880
t Data unavailable.
'3-year average (1940-1942).
'Data for previous years unavailable.
32-year average (1940-1941).
17
11.60
12.60
15.00
9.90'
1200.
t
t
t
t
t
t
$
T
t
t
t
t
t
Table 16.
ALSIICE CLOVER SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Average
District and county
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District
District 5
1
Baker
Malheur
Union
Wallowa
Total, District 5
District 6
Crook
Deschutes
Grant
Harney
Jefferson
Klamath
Lake
Total, District 6
Josephine
State total
Farm
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
farm price
per
hundred-
Cash
receipts
from farm
rnarketings
weight
100
75
200
2,000
700
14,600
13,000
29,200
170,000
158,500
$33.75
34.55
34.45
33.70
33.55
4,800
4,400
9,900
56,200
52,100
250
100
200
48,000
34,000
45,000
34.10
33.70
33.70
16,000
11,200
14,900
3,625
512,300
$33.95
75
50
70
9,600
6,400
9,000
$33.70
33.70
33.70
3,200
2,100
3,000
195
25,000
$33.70
8,300
1,500
1,200
532,800
426,000
11,600
$33.70
33.70
32.85
$ 175800
4,700
2,520,000
11,600
33.70
33.70
33.70
1,600
832,300
3,800
8,670
3,506,700
$33.55
$1,157,900
10
1,000
$32.00
$
12,500
4,045,000
$33.65
$1,336,000
50
20
5,850
50
-
18
$
169,500
140,700
3,700
300
Table 17.
District and
county*
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
ALSIXE CLOVER SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
4-year
average
5-year
average
1936-1939
1940-1944
1945
1946
19471)
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
370
377
234
290
250
100
100
100
2,000
800
350
100
250
200
2,000
700
250
100
200
150
1,800
700
288
1,000
220
190
4,360
1,030
560
185
375
8,031
7,210
3,825
3,625
3,650
9
10
10
60
10
10
58
50
25
75
50
70
3,937
1,125
District 2
Columbia
75
150
75
800
250
100
200
5'
Total, Dis-
5'
trict 2
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
Total, District 3
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Wallowa
Total, Dis-
trict 5
District 6
31
13'
13'
18
187
11
48
108
61
4'
40
50
50
50
10
216
231
115
195
160
Deschutes
1,825
4,531
1,340
2,370
1,000
1,000
1,500
1,200
2,100
2,100
Lake
2,650
34
6,160
3,000
6,850
30
50
10,000
9,059
9,994
5,050
9,670
15,070
13,500
18.880
Crook
Grant
Jefferson
Klamath
Total, Dis-
trict 6
Other counties
19
17
23
20
84
50
20
20
800
50
81
17,500
9,000
State total
17,400
* Counties listed only where alsike clover seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
"One year only.
19
Table 18.
District and county
District 1
Benton
RED CLOVER SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Farm
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
$41.10
41.50
38.20
40.10
40.25
41.10
41.05
40.95
42.95
$ 15,000
2,000
2,300
3,000
40,000
246,000
32,000
82,000
165,000
3,000
112,000
273,000
285,000
13,480
1,238,000
$40.80
$465,500
50
7,000
$38.20
$
20
4,000
38.20
70
11,000
$38.20
$
3,800
75
15,000
907,000
4,000
$40.50
40.50
40.10
$
60
5,500
334,400
1,500
4,385
926,000
$40.35
$341,400
200
300
70,000
56,000
15,000
$38.20
38.20
38.25
$ 24,300
80
20
45
200
4,000
12,000
38,000
38.25
40.40
38.25
845
195,000
$38.60
$ 67,800
Umatilla
200
20
27,000
3000
$38.20
38.20
$
State total
19,000
2,400,000
$39.65
$889,000
500
Clackamas
3,000
350
1,000
1,300
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District
30
1
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
Total, District 3
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Wallowa
Total, District 5
District 6
Crook
Deschutes
Grant
Harney
Jefferson
Klamath
Lake
Total, District 6
Columbia
4,250
92,600
11,100
29,900
60,500
1,100
41,900
102,000
111,400
2,500
1,300
19,300
5,200
,_
1,300
4,400
13,300
9,400
1,100
Table 19
District and
county*
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
District 2
Columbia
Lincoln
Total, Dis-
trict 2
District 3
Douglas
Josephine
Total, Dis-
trict 3
District 4
Morrow
Umatilla
\Vasco
Total, District 4
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Total, Dis-
trict 5
District 6
Crook
Deschutes
Grant
Jefferson
Klamath
Lake
Total, Dis-
trict 6
State total
RED CLOVER SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
4-year
average
5-year
average
1940-1944
1945
1946
19471)
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
525
879
663
1,360
1,996
15
1,575
2,412
2,050
326
740
380
620
1,140
24
1,280
1,220
1,110
400
400
300
800
1,200
500
3,000
350
1,000
1,300
700
1,600
1,500
2,000
2,300
3,000
650
4,000
350
900
1,300
30
1,000
2,500
3,500
11,475
6,840
6,900
13,480
14,230
156
59
100
200
200
157
59
100
200
200
30
44
50
10
50
20
20
7
51
60
70
20
101
11
50
20
20
75
22
61
20
20
75
204
7,800
112
3,920
75
3,300
4,250
100
4,500
30
60
80
3,380
4,385
4,680
400
400
15
400
1936-1939
30
1"
ii
31
..
12'
50
156
125
8,160
4,157
131
238
100
200
200
157
12
144
127
20
40
180
20
5,
135
46
'
92
300
80
45
200
75
105
555
532
540
845
1,395
20,400
11,700
11,000
19,000
20,600
Counties listed only where red clove seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
"One year only.
21
Table 20. CRIMSON CLOVER SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Counties
Clackamas
Lane
Table 21.
District and
county*
District 1
Benton
Clackamas .. ....
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
production
(clean seed)
Acres
500
$15.55
15.30
15.30
15.80
14.00
15.30
13.50
15.30
$15,500
25
Pounds
105,900
5,900
10,400
154,500
83,400
7,700
86,700
5,500
2,300
460,000
$15.00
$65,000
500
State total
Average
farm price
per
hundred-
Area
harvested
25
75
600
550
25
Linn
Marion
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Grant
Farm
weight
900
1,400
23,400
11,000
1,000
11,000
800
CRIMSON CLOVER SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
4-year
average
5-year
average
1936-1939
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
31
150
207
1,400
500
25
500
25
75
500
8
60
51
5
23
2
20
350
35
600
25
103
447
1,240
75
5
75
500
600
13
369
148
500
200
50
550
25
500
500
445
4,372
1,985
2,275
2,205
600
District 2
Columbia
11
Total, Dis-
trict 2
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
Total, Dis-
trict 3
District 6
Crook
Grant
5
12
9
26
P
15
Total, Dis-
1'
15
trict 6
4,400
350
2,000
State total
* Counties listed only where crimson clover seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
10ne year only.
22
. .... ...
25
25
2,300
2,205
Table 22. LADINO CLOVER SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Average
District and county
District .1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
Di.strict 3
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
Total, District 3
Other counties
Malheur
Crook
Deschutes
Grant
Klamath
State total
Fartn
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
10
75
35
50
50
2,500
3,400
2,900
2,000
2,700
$130.50
130.50
130.50
130.50
121.50
3,200
4,300
3,700
2,500
3,200
60
60
4,400
13,000
3,600
128.70
122.80
128.70
5,500
16,100
4,500
515
34,500
$128.60
$ 43,000
60
3,000
114,000
112,000
$121.25
120.80
121.50
$
2,300
1,850
4,210
229,000
$121.20
$269,100
500
300
250
25
200
46,700
31,000
27,000
1,800
20,000
$120.60
120.60
120.60
120.60
120.60
$ 54,600
6,000
390,000
$124.70
$433,000
175
23
3,500
133,600
132,000
36,200
4,600
2,100
23,400
Table 23.
LADINO CLOVER SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
4-year
average
District and
county*
District 1
5-year
average
1936-1939
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
5
17
26
50
35
250
10
75
35
50
50
60
14
48
46
150
175
60
85
75
35
50
75
30
125
100
208
263
685
515
575
1,140
96
870
1,900
2,000
2,000
2,300
1,850
2,000
1,300
1,236
2,779
4,015
4,210
3,335
124
517
1,000
500
20
250
125
517
1,000
500
270
212
97
246
75
300
100
300
250
17
17
100
200
30
85
25
350
200
775
690
6,000
4,870
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
16
33
24
26
16
75
13
Linn
Marion
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
45
29
38
80
40
80
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
15
9
Total, Dis-
trict 3
District 4
60
35
Umatilla
Total, Dis-
trict 4
District 5
Baker
Malheur
1'
Total, Dis-
trict 5
District 6
Crook
Deschutes
Grant
Jefferson
Klamath
'
Total, Dis-
338
500
trict 6
326
31
Other counties ..
4'
1,900
State total
3,900
6,200
* Counties listed only where ladino clover seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
Table 24.
Counties
Benton
Lane
Linn
Marion
Polk
Malheur
Crook
Klamath
State total
25
WHITE CLOVER SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Area
harvested
Farm
production
(clean seed)
Average
arm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
$58,00
58.00
58.00
58.00
58.00
58.00
58.00
58.00
$ 18,000
10
50
Pounds
33,000
2,000
188,500
38,000
2,000
31,000
1,500
4,000
2,300
300,000
58.00
$159,000
Acres
300
20
1,475
300
20
,
125
24
1,000
100,000
20,000
1,000
16,000
800
2,200
Table 25.
5-year
District and
county*
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
average
1939t
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres.
Acres
20
12
11
910
500
100
20
20
17
40
50
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1 .....
WHITE CLOVER SEED ACREAGE, 1939-1947.
71
300
100
1,400
350
20
1,475
300
1,300
225
20
20
20
7
6
50
20
50
,
90
District 3
Jackson
1,490
1,910
2,115
1,765
150
125
125
150
125
125
50
30'
Total, Dis-
trict 3
District 4
30'
Umatilla
Total, Dis-
trict 4
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Total, District 5
25
2"
25
202
10
76
10
30
10
50
10
78
40
60
50
2,300
1,940
District 6
Crook
Klamath
Total, Dis-
trict 6
State total
1
199
2"
125
2,100
1,800
* Counties listed only where small white clover seed is grown.
t Figures unavailable before 1939.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
25
Table 26.
SUBTERRANEAN CLOVER SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
District and county
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Total, District 1
District 4
Morrow
Sherman
Umatilla
Vasco
Total, District 4
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Wallowa
Total, District 5
District 6
$53.70
$152,000
35
11,000
22,000
$53.70
53.70
53.70
500
331,000
$53.70
.$
5,600
11,100
300
$169,000
SWEET CLOVER SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
4-year
average
5-year
average
1936-1939
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
18
26
14
4
17
10
6
25
10
5
35
10
25
10
59
30
45
50
35
5'
3'
7
1'
16
52
5
10
10
21
63
5
10
10
62
56
3'
25
90
49
25
236
193
25
120
225
400
354
333
170
250
400
50
50
60
30
40
75
90
135
400
580
Crook
Deschutes
17
Lake
80
13
Harney
Grant
Klamath
297,500
1,880
Table 27.
Polk
Yamhill
5'4.00
1,665
5
State total
Linn
300
125
300
71,000
2,600
6,600
17,400
3,000
5,600
30,800
14,700
175
Crook
Benton
Lane
$
30
50
Douglas
Josephine
weight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
$53.70
54.00
53.70
53.70
53.70
53.70
54.00
52.75
60
Other counties
per
hundred-
500
250
Total, District 1
Average
farm price
138,000
5,000
13,000
34,000
6,000
11,000
61,500
28,500
25
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
District 1
Acres
Pounds
800
25
Linn
Marion
District and
county"
Area
harveked
Farm
production
(clean seed)
11
1'
5
3
25
13
32
26
Total, Dis-
104
80
trict 6
121
530
300
555
State total
* Counties listed only where sweet clover seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
26
27
OREGON'S SEED CROPS
Alfalfa seed
An estimated 6,000 acres of alfalfa were harvested for seed in
This represents only about 1i per cent of the total Oregon
seed crop acreage and compares to 7,000 acres harvested for seed in
1945, which was about equal to the average from 1936 to 1945. An
1946.
estimated 5,500 acres were harvested for seed in 1947. About
614,000 pounds of alfalfa seed were produced in Oregon in 1946.
Total cash receipts from marketings of alfalfa seed exceeded
$249,000 in 1946, compared to $112,000 in 1942. Of the 1946 total
an estimated $103,000 were derived from sales of common alfalfa
seed, $50,000 from ladak and $96,000 from Grimm and other varieties. Tables 28 through 34 show acreage, production, average farm
price and cash receipts from farm marketings of alfalfa seed.
Table 28. ALFALFA SEED ESTIMATES, BY KINDS, OREGON, 1936-1946.
Seed and year harvested
Common alfalfa
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Grimm alfalfa
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
7,300
4,100
3,100
2,500
3,400
3,900
3,000
680
680
625
550
650
1,400
1,000
Ladak alfalfa
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Farm
970
970
1,100
810
825
1,500
1,600
Other alfalfa
1939'
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Data unavailable.
'Three-year average (1940-1942).
"See other alfalfa.
'Includes Grimm.
'Data for previous years unavailable.
150
200
180
140
125
200
400
832,500
340,000
190,000
t
t
t
256,000
97,000
61,000'
42,000
t
t2
t
67,000
108,0001
85,000
t
t
t
128,000
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
$22.50
24.95'
34.00
t
t
t
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
$178,000
71,000"
59,000
t
t
t
41.65
103,000
29.10
27,000
40.00
15,500
30.601
t
t
t
t
16,000'
t
t
2
f
36.10
20,600
42.00
34,000
34.25'
t
t
47.10
32,900'
t
t
50,000
8,000'
t
t
4;000
3,400'
t
't
tt
230,0003
t
t
10,000
8,000
t
t
t
t
3,500
t
96,000'
Table 29.
COMMON ALFALFA SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Average
Counties
Jackson
Wheeler
Umatilla
Baker
Malheur
Union
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
30
4,400
2,100
2,700
20,400
64,700
7,600
16,000
11,500
24,000
1,600
97,700
3,300
3,000
256,000
150
50
100
270
880
100
200
100
300
20
800
Crook
Grant
Harney
Klamath
Lake
Morrow
State total
Farm
farm price
per
hundredweight
$t
I.
I.
I.
I.
I.
$41.65
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
$
1,900
900
1,200
8,600
26,400
3,200
6,800
4,700
10,300
600
37,000
1,400
$103,000
t Unavailable.
Table 30.
COMMON ALFALFA SEED ACREAGE, 1939-1947.
5-year
average
District and
county*
District 1
Clackamas
Marion
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District, 1
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
Total, District 3
District 4
Gilliam
Hood River
Morrow
Umatilla
Wheeler
Total, Dis-
trict 4
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Total, Dis-
trict 5
District 6
Crook
Deschutes
-
Grant
Harney
Klamath
Lake
19391
Acres
1940-1944
Acres
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
150
150
150
150
150
150
55
\
25
5
10
5
10
5
55
40
280
40
70
5
320
115
5
100
20
100
5
25
30
100
50
50
30
445
151
180
180
80
3,000
3,950
1,400
270
1,544
370
1,500
200
270
880
100
350
600
50
8,350
2,624
1,970
1,250
1,000
35
15
15
47
10
35
201
86
826
300
200
75
300
100
300
20
800
100
200
20
700
1,420
1,095
3,000
2,325
330
10
250
215
300
14
112
710
10
100
90
800
Total, Dis-
830
1,205
1,600
trict 6
4,100
3,900
State total
10,000
p Preliminary.
- Counties listed only where common alfalfa seed is grown.
'County figures not available for 4 year average.
28
Table 31.
LADAK ALFALFA SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Counties
Area
harvested
Farm
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
Umatilla
Baker
Malheur
Union
Grant
4,400
27,000
10,000
' 7,000
3,400
3,700
4,700
66,000
1,800
65
300
100
75
120
120
175
Harney
Klamath
Lake
'
Other counties'
600
451
128,000
1,600
State total
1Gilliam, 10 acres; Wheeler, 20 acres ; Wallowa, 15 acres.
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
$45.00
48.60
48.35
50.00
46.00
46.00
46.00
46.00
48.00
$ 1,600
$47.10
$50,000
11,000
4,000
3,000
1,300
1,400
1,800
25,200
700
Table 32. LADAK ALFALFA SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1937.
District and
county*
District
4
Gilliam
Morrow
Umatilla
4-year
average
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
5'
2"
21
Wheeler
Total, Dis-
trict 4
District
5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Wallowa
Total, District 5
District
Crook
6
Grant
Harney
Jefferson
Klamath
Lake
5-year
average
1936-1939
292
49
545
10
11
90
15
20
70
15
17
. 105
95
85
140
300
60
150
300
190
350
200
100
... .....
15
10
16'
53
360
11
65
75
887
553
510
490
660
29
16
30
25
110
125
120
120
100
126
203
150
500
175
600
8
21
22
13
Total, Dis-
400
885
74
trict 6
970
1,500
970
State total
* Counties listed only where ladak alfalfa seed is given.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
29
30
15
120
550
1,015
815
1,600
1,560
Table 33.
District and
county*
District 1
GR/ AIM ALFALFA SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
4-year
average
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
40
50
35
19
40
50
35
79
300
40
200
40
340
200
Marion
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
16
Total, District 1
District 3
18
Douglas
Josephine.
Total, Dis-
trict 3
District 4
Morrow
Umatilla
5-year
average
1936-1939
2'
8
2"
81
31
81
82
1'
15
41
15
3'
5
45
Total, Dis-
trict 4
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Total, District 5
District 6
Crook
Deschutes
Grant
Klamath
Lake
388
115
170
156
30
500
125
300
100
250
509
331
655
430
340
150
200
120
200
110
175
61
26
51
7
5
30
50
2'
4'
5
86
17
114
123
141
248
350
320
285
680
680
1,400
1,000
705
Total, Dis-
trict 6
State total
40
* Counties listed only where Grimm alfalfa seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
30
Table 34.
District and
county.
District 3
OTHER ALFALFA SEED ACREAGE, 1939-1947.
5-year
average
19391
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
20
Jackson
Total, Dis-
trict 3
District 4
20
1'
Gilliam
Umatilla
Total, Dis-
trict 4
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Wallowa
Total, Dis-
trict 5
1i
10
5
55
10
5
55
100
200
50
20
59
98
38
100
25
30
200
115
45
65
45
150
195
155
360
410
4
35
30
30
70
35
100
400
585
80
District 6
Grant
Barney
Jefferson
5
Total, Dis-
35
4
trict 6
200
200
State total
150
Counties listed only where other alfalfa seed is grown.
Figures unavailable before 1939.
p Preliminary.
One year only.
31
32
EXTENSION BULLETIN 694
Grass seed
Approximately 38 per cent of the total seed crop acreage in
Oregon in 1946 was represented by the 143,200 acres of grass seed
grown in the state that year. Slightly over 114,000 acres were grown
in 1942.
Total cash receipts from farm marketings were about $8,400,000
in 1946, an increase of about 350 per cent above the 1941 total.
Common ryegrass led the group with total cash receipts from
farm marketings of $4,207,000, and chewings fescue was next with
$1,147,000. Oregon farmers received $830,000 from sales of perennial ryegrass in 1946, $729,000 from alta fescue, $385,000 from
Astoria bentgrass, $351,000 from Highland bentgrass, and $139,000
from Seaside bentgrass. Creeping fescue returned $472,000 and
Sudan grass $134,000 to Oregon farmers that year.
Prices paid to the grower for most grass seed were higher in
1946 than in 1942. For complete details of acreage, production,
prices, and cash receipts from farm marketings of Oregon grass seeds
for the years 1936-1946, see Tables 35 through 51.
Table 35. GRASS SEED EST/MATES, BY KINDS, OREGON, 1936-1946.
Seed and year harvested
Alta (tall) fescue
1938-19391
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
23,000
247,0002
270,000
110
1,950
1,850
2,100
3,800
5,000
7,200
t
t
1936-1939 average
Canary grass
1936-1939 average
1940-19412
1946
Creeping red fescue
1940-19423
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Orchard grass,
1936-1939 average
1940-19412
1946
Meadow {oxtail
1940-1942,
1942
1946
Timothy grass,
1936-1939 average
1940-19412
1946
Common ryegrass
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Perennial ryegrass
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Bentgrass
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
hundredpe
weight
$33.35
19.252
25.00
t
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
7,000
46,0002
65,000
t
t
2,136,000
t
t
36.00
729,000
17,000
21,000
16.70
15.00
2,700
3,100
125
125
25
26,000
27,000
33.75
20.50
7,300
4,800
217
350
45,000
75,000
47.30
45.00
19,700
33,000
1,103,000
44.00
472,000
475
4,400
85
3,500
20,000
36,000
15.75
22.05
72
100
250
8,000
10,000
32,000
71.65
75.00
5,500
7,200
189
105
Tall oat grass
1940-19412
1946
Average
farm price
Farm
88
185
225
t
t
t
t
t
2,275
t
t
t
21
125
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
24,600
14,800
t
7.65
6.20
1,500
900
40
35,400
70,200
84,000
60,000
72,000
80,000
98,000
17,189,000
27,100,000
30,000,000
23,000,000
31,000,000
39,500,000
58,000,000
4.30
5.45
5.00
7.90
7.00
7.50
7.50
656,250
1,393,800
1,420,000
1,720,000
2,054,000
2,805,000
4,207,000
3,400
13,200
13,200
14,500
16,500
15,000
16,500
727,000
2,904,000
3,300,000
3,200,000
4,600,000
4,500,000
5,600,000
8.65
10.75
10.50
13.50
12.90
14.00
15.15
57,000
336,000
340,000
423,000
582,000
617,000
830,000
4,500
6,100
6,500
5,800
6,200
6,100
7,400
580,500
40.00
42.853
45.00
228,000
345,0003
358,000
809,0003
800,000
t
t
i.
1,314,000
33
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
t
1.
875,000
Table 35 (Continued).
Seed and year harvested
Crested wheat grass
1936-1939 average
19410-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
GRASS SEED ESTIMATES, BY KINDS, OREGON, 1936-1946.
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
2,400
2,400
1,500
1,000
500
500
500
Chewings fescue
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Smooth brome grass
1938-19391
1940-19412
1946
Sudan grass
1936-1939 average
1940-1944 average
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Lemons alkali grass
1940-1941'
1936-1939 average
1940-1941'
1946
Bulbous bluegrass
1936-1939 average
1940-19412
1946
Average
farm price
per
hundred-
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
weight
273,800
204,000
140,000
80,000
50,000
50,000
50,000
28.60
10.35
6.00
12.20
16.00
17.00
60,500
19,000
7,500
7,000
5,500
7,000
7,600
83,500
718,0003
37.90
28.15
33.00
32,475
204,0003
310,000
9.80
400
3,700
4,100
4,200
4,300
5,100
6,700
2,789,000
44.35
1,147,000
50
75
5,200
9,200
21.70
13.50
1,000
1,100
990
1,800
1,000
2,000
4,000
3,500
3,200
507,000
1,320,000
750,000
1,300,000
2,400,000
2,000,000
1,900,000
2.40
4.60
3.50
9.20
5.70
5.70
7.80
11,150
64,000
20,000
107,000
125,000
104,000
134,000
22
3,200
20.35
600
625
525
800
83,250
70,500
65,000
15.65
17.50
12,625
11,850
140'
27,000'
16.65'
960,000
t
t
t
1946
Kentucky bluegrass
Farm
65,000
300
t
t
t
1-
7
.
t
t
t
4,300'
11.50
6,900
t Data unavailable.
12-year average. Data for previous years unavailable.
22-year average. Data for other years unavailable.
33-year average (1940-1942).
4Includes seed screened from other crops.
53-year average (1936-38 and 1939).
Table 36. COMMON RYE GRASS SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
District and county
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Douglas
State total
Farm
Average
farm price
per
hundred-
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
8,000
500
15,000
56,000
8,000
6,500
1,000
2,600
400
Pounds
5,000,000
174,000
6,072,000
38,746,000
2,614,000
3,520,000
324,000
1,430,000
120,000
$7.50
7.50
7.55
7.50
7.50
7.50
7.50
7.50
7.50
$
98,000
58,000,000
$7.50
$4,207,000
34
weight
345,000
12,000
419,000
2,677,000
180,400
243,000
223,600
98,700
8,300
Table 37. COMMON RYE GRASS SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
District and
county'
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
4-year
average
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
2,637
7,500
500
11,000
47,500
5,000
5,000
2,600
8,000
500
15,000
56,000
8,000
6,500
1,000
2,600
12,000
48,000
7,000
6,000
1,400
7,800
165
9,800
40,700
4,860
4,380
250
1,980
35,400
69,935
79,550
97,600
84,600
400
400
100
50
4,175
Linn
Marion
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
5-year
average
1936-1939
2-4,000
1,388
1,738
121
District 2
450
8,000
500
800
2,300
30
Columbia
Total, Dis-
trict 2
30
District 3
215
20
Douglas
Josephine
50
Total, Dis-
400
trict 3
235
450
98,000
State total
35,400
70,200
80,000
* Counties listed only where common rye grass seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
Table 38.
PERENNIAL RYE GRASS SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
District and county
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
Columbia
Other counties'
State total
100
84,700
Average
farm price
per
hundred-
Cash
weight
receipts
from farm
marketings
1,100,000
35,000
200,000
3,600,000
362,000
$16.00
15.10
15.00
15.00
15.45
$172,000
5,200
29,500
529,000
55,000
500
75
250
128,000
29,000
94,000
15.00
15.00
14.75
18,800
4,200
13,600
16,275
5,548,000
$15.15
$827,300
150
75'
38,000
14,000
$15.10
15.10
$
16,500
5,600,000
$15.15
$830,000
Area
harvested
Farm
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
4,000
150
900
9,000
1,400
'Lincoln 15 acres, Douglas 30 acres, Union 10 acres, Klamath 20 acres.
35
600
2,100
Table 39.
District and
county*
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
PERENNIAL RYE GRASS SEED ACREAGE, 1936-147.
4-year
average
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
156
94
247
2,540
234
980
7,640
900
3,000
150
1,000
8,800
1,000
500
4,000
150
900
9,000
1,400
500
4,300
150
800
9,000
1,000
475
2,367
241
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
190
District 2
Total, District 2
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
510
267
275
60
75
250
3,361
13,086
14,785
16,275
16,050
150
15
150
15
15
331
165
165
15
32
30
30
40
30
30
40
38'
Columbia
Lincoln
-
50
161
Total, District 1
5-year
average
1936-1939
38'
11
15
301
3'
4
50
275
20'
Total, District 3
District 5
Union
11
56
17
10
17
10
Total, Dis-
trict 5
District 6
Klamath
20
8
20
Total, Dis-
trict 6
8
20
20
15,000
State total
3,400
13,200
16,500
* Counties listed only where English rye grass seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
20
20
16,125
Table 40. ASTORIA BENT GRASS SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Counties
Clatsop
Columbia
Douglas
Union
Klamath
State total
Average
farm price
per
hundred-
Cash
Area
harvested
Farm
production
(clean seed)
weight
receipts
from farm
marketings
Acres
1,950
400
200
120
700
Pounds
396,500
73,000
15,000
25,500
75,000
$65.90
65.90
65.90
63.00
69.30
$259,500
47,700
9,900
16,000
51,900
3,370
585,000
$66.00
$385,000
36
Table 41.
SEASIDE BENT GRASS SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Average
Counties
Area
harvested
Pounds
73,500
9,200
Acres
Lane
400
50
20
750
Clatsop
Coos
Klamath
State total
Farm
production
(clean seed)
1,220
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
$69.30
69.30
69.30
69.30
$ 50,000
300
120,000
203,000
$69.30
$139,000
6,200
200
82,600
Table 42. HIGHLAND BENT GRASS SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Counties
Area
harvested
Acres
Linn
Marion
Washington
Yamhill
Douglas
Union
State total
Farm
production
(clean seed)
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
250
2,000
90
250
30
Pounds
74,300
391,000
9,000
17,500
2,200
32,000
$67.30
67.30
67.30
67.30
67.30
67.30
$ 49,900
2,810
526,000
$67.30
$351,000
190'
'Includes 30 acres of velvet bent grass.
37
262,000
6,000
11,700
1.400
20,000
Table 43. BENT GRASS SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
4-year
District and
average
county*
5-year
average
1936-1939
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
13
13
30
400
100
400
250
325
275
5,000
District 1
Benton
Lane
562
Linn
Marion
18
140
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
23
2
Total, District 1
District 2
Clatsop
Columbia
Coos
450
186
1,140
1,750
30
2,000
30
90
li
250
250
758
1,790
2,280
2,990
5,910
2,062
2,030
1,800
350
2,000
2,000
400
881
226
Curry
430
92
400
20
11
Lincoln
11
Total, District 2
District 3
2,377
2,563
2,150
2,420
2,400
330
337
200
2302
150
Total, District 3
330
337
200
230
150
35
270
3101
460
35
270
310
460
1,030
1,375
1,200
1,450
1,700
1,030
1,375
1,200
1,450
1,700
4,500
6,100
6,100
7,400
10,620
Douglas
District 5
Union
Total, Dis-
trict 5
District 6
Klamath
Total, Dis-
trict 6
Other counties
._
State total
* Counties listed only where bent grass seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
'Includes 30 acres of velvet bent grass.
Table 44.
District and county
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
Clatsop
Union
Klamath
CHEWINGS FESCUE SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Farm
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
1,300
20,000
290,000
150,000
398,000
642,500
$44.75
44.75
41.40
45.00
45.20
325
450
1,800
60,000
90,000
352,500
45.50
44.75
42.95
5,675
2,003,000
$44.30
$
831,300
100
15,000
731,000
32,000
8,000
$44.75
42.75
45.90
44.75
$
6,300
292,500
13,600
3,300
$44.35
$1,147,000
50
600
300
850
'770
100
Other counties'
551
State total
6,700
2,789,000
'Columbia, 40 acres; Lincoln, 5 acres; Deschutes, 10 acres
38
$
8,400
121,300
58,100
167,400
271,500
25,600
37,700
141,300
Table 45.
CHEWINGS FESCUE SEED ACREAGE, 1939-1947.
5-year
District and
county*
District I
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
District 2
Clatsop
Columbia
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
70
200
55
600
50
200
800
1,000
600
300
850
1,300
60
600
250
875
1,800
50
80
85
63
557
152
500
560
40
172
281
542
300
300
950
325
450
1,800
400
450
1,800
740
2,867
4,205
5,675
100
166
24
100
40
100
5
5
145
145
100
10
70
175
Lincoln
Total, Dis-
trict2
District 3
Douglas
average
1939
1,-
100
191
30
18
30
18
-
6,235
100
40
Total, Dis-
trict 3
District 4
Umatilla
5
Total, Dis-
trict 4
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Total, District 5
District 6
Deschutes
Klamath
4
5
50
578
630
770
800
50
587
630
770
800
7
10
110
10
100
120
5
25
Total, Dis-
trict 6 _. ......
5
32
120
State total
925
3,700
5,100
* Counties listed only where chewings fescue seed is grown
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
39
5
.110
125
6,700
7,260
Table 46.
District and county
District I
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
500
200
150
472,000
278,500
95,500
700,000
204,500
3,500
165,000
66,000
49,500
$31.95
36.00
36.00
37.05
36.85
37.75
32.05
36.00
32.75
$146,400
97,000
33,300
251,400
73,000
1,300
6,790
2,034,500
$35.10
$692,500
Go
14,000
69,000
2,500
16,000
$42.30
36.00
37.05
$
10
1
Farm
Area
harvested
1,500
500
380
2,750
800
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Umatilla
Union
Malheur
Other counties1
ALTA FESCUE SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.,
275
20
551
37.Q5
2,136,000
State total
7,200
$36.00
iClatsop, 10 acres; Douglas, 30 acres; Jackson, 10 acres; Grant, 5 acres.
40
51,3-00
23,000
15,800
5,800
24,000
900
5,800
$729,000
Table 47. ALTA FESCUE SEED ACREAGE, 1939-1947.
5-year
District and
county*
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yarnhill
Total, District 1
average
1939t
Acres
8
20
2
50
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
132
250
97
675
308
500
375
200
2,000
700
450
500
1,500
500
380
2,750
800
85
300
150
150
10
500
200
150
2,850'
800
10
500
175
150
1,763
4,675
6,790
7,635
5
10
10
10
40
5
10
10
50
15
45
20
30
10
20
50
15
65
40
70
33
35
60
80
33
35
60
80
20
133
215
275
520
20
133
215
295
520
2,500
41
50
130
97
115
District 2
Clatsop
Columbia
Total, Dis-
trict 2
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Total, District 3
District 4
Umatilla
Total, Dis-
trict 4
District 5
Malheur
Union
Total, District 5
District 6
Deschutes
Grant
Klamath
20
5
Total Dis-
trict 6
State total
5
10
11
150
1,950
5,000
" Counties listed only where a ta fescue seed is grown.
t Figures unavailable for years before 1939.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
41
5
15
7,200
8,370
Table 48. CREEPING RED FESCUE GRASS SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
District and county
District I
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Farm
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
135
115
100
150
75
27,000
48,900
60,000
27,400
56,500
$40.50
47.05
48.75
45.00
45.00
$ 10,500
10
150
100
5,200
60,000
40,000
48.60
47.05
47.05
2,500
27,500
18,500
22,500
28,500
12,000
25,000
835
325,000
$47.05
$147,000
Union
1,440
778,000
$42.75
$325,000
State total
2,275
1,103,000
$44.00
$472,000
Total, District
1
Table 49.
SUDAN GRASS SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Average
District and county
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
Other counties
Douglas
Jackson
Malheur
State total
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
Area
harvested
Farm
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
100
75
55,500
9,100
26,600
1,475,000
53,200
$7.80
7.80
7.80
7.80
7.80
75
15
100
30,300
10,400
60,800
7.80
7.80
7.80
2,100
900
4,000
2,880
1,720,900
$7.80
$121,500
200
100
110,400
57,700
11,000
$7.80
$
20
3,200
1,900,000
$7.80
$134,000
15
50
2,450
42
7.80
7.80
$
4,000
600
2,000
104,000
3,900
7,800
3,900
800
Table 50.
District and
county*
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
4-year
average
SUDAN GRASS SEED ACREAGE, 1939-1947.
5-year
average
1936-1939
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
13
67
150
100
15
5
73
2,450
50
2,300
62
48
11
57
200
2,500
75
100
25
100
927
1,497
3,150
842
6'
1,149
86
5
15
50
75
75
15
100
2,880
50
50
100
15
120
2,700
District 2
Columbia
Coos
10
2
Total, Dis-
trict 2
District 3
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
Total, District 3
2
10
8
25
43
10
143
127
200
100
200
100
25
100
281
300
300
125
50
20
20
50
20
20
3,200
2,855
11
District 4
Umatilla
4
Total, Dis-
trict 4
District .5
Malheur
Union
Total, District 5
District 6
Lake
4
3
10
15
5
18
15
31
Total, Dis-
31
trict 6
State total
990
1,800
3,500
* Counties listed only where Sudan grass seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
'One year only,
43
44
EXTENSION BULLETIN 694
Table 51. CRESTED WHEAT GRASS SEED ACREAGE, 1936-1947.
District and
county*
4-year
average
5-year
average
1936-1939
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
706
155
300
400
60
477
362
350
425
District 4
Gilliam
Morrow
Sherman
Umatilla
Wasco
Wheeler
Total, District 4
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Wallowa
Total, District 5
District 6
Crook
Deschutes
Grant
Harney
Jefferson
Klamath
Lake
Total, Dis-
trict 6
200
30
100
50
98
100
35
50
1,640
1,712
185
185
275
169
87
243
56
200
8
10
10
10
63
77
75
75
75
555
348
85
85
85
24
14
17
10
33
53
15
3
5
50
25
19
14
52
205
104
107
50
49
340
400
45
60
100
50
20
230
500
State total
2,400
2,400
* Counties listed only where crested wheat grass seed is grown.
p Preliminary.
'One year only.
60
50
75
40
200
160
100
230
900
500
1,260
-
Vegetable seeds
An estimated 3,750 acres of vegetable seeds were grown in Oregon in 1946. This figure does not include vegetable type peas grown
f or seed. Cash receipts from farm marketing of vegetable seeds
were $436,900 that year. Of this amount, onion seed sales accounted
for $113,400, cabbage seed $78,500, lettuce seed $51,400, squash seed
$46,000, cucumber $37,600, and turnip seed $30,400. An estimated
4,950 acres of vegetable seed were grown in 1942. These crops are
grown in Oregon under contract for large seed companies here .and
in other states. Tables 52 through 60 show acreage production,
average farm price, and cash receipts from farm marketings of
vegetable seeds in Oregon.
Table 52. ONION SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Farm
Area
District
harvested
Acres
District
1
District 4
District 5
District 6
State total
production
(clean seed)
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
275
20
265
$59.00
59.00
91.00
90.00
$ 39,500
45
Pounds
67,000
3,600
70,000
9,000
605
149,600
$75.80
$113,400
2,100
63,700
8,100
Table 53. 0 Niox SEED ACREAGE, 1939-1947.
District and
county*
Distri,ct 1
Benton
Clackamas
Linn
Marion
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
District 2
5-year
average
1939t
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
5
10
125
210
30
480
20
10
600
46
42
23
100
10
75
10
20
10
150
30
20
35
295
645
865
275
10
250
25
19
50
20
15
20
30
Columbia
Total, Dis-
trict 2
1
District 3
Douglas
Josephine
5
2
Total, Dis-
trict 3
District 4
trict 4
trict 5
2
2
2
Total, Dis-
Total, Dis-
8
18
Umatilla
Wasco
Wheeler
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
7
25
20
15
300
265
300
302
265
300
15
10
30
5
10
2
2
345
2
7
25
352
District 6
Crook
Deschutes
Klamath
Lake
3
5
3
3
Total, Dis-
trict 6
6
23
320
1,200
State total
1,013
* Counties listed only where onion seed is grown.
t Figures unavailable for years before 1939.
p Preliminary.
45
45
10
605
535
Table 54.
SPINACH SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
District
District
Average
farm price
per
hundred.
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
Area
harvested
(clean seed)
Acres
255
15
Pounds
103,700
12,000
$12.00
12.00
$12,100
1,400
270
115,700
$12.00
$13,500
1
District 4
State total
Table 55.
Farm
production
weight
SPINACH SEED ACREAGE, 1940-1947.
5-year
average
District and county*
District 1
194019441'
1945
1946
1947
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
201
145
50
50
15
60
75
75
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Yamhill
5
149
290
150
29
22
Total, District 1
District 3
846
Douglas
15
5
5
50
10
300
255
22
Total, District 3
District 4
22
Umatilla
Total, District 4
District 5
15
15
15
15
Union
80
Total, District 5
District 6
80
Klamath
86
Total, District 6
86
State total
* Counties listed only where spinach seed is grown.
t Figures unavailable for years before 1940.
Table 56,
District
District
District
1
5
State total
954
300
270
95
TURNIP SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Area
harvested
Farm
production
(clean seed)
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash'
receipts
from farm
marketings
580
120
124,500
129,100
$12.00
12.00
$14,900
15,500
700
253,600
$12.00
$30,400
46
Table 57.
TURNIP SEED ACREAGE, 1939 1947.
5-year
District and
county*
.
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
1939t
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
50
10
65
300
15
150
10
15
98
380
25
400
350
5
4
15
5
5
3
5
395
373
730
580
365
5
96
150
120
120
5
102
150
120
120
6
20
700
485
50
250
25
10
Total, District 1
average
17
56
125
District 5
Baker
Malheur
6,-
Total, Dis-
trict 5
District 6
Lake
Total, Dis-
6
20
trict 6
400
481
900
State total
" Counties listed only where turnip seed is grown.
f Figures unavailable for years before 1939.
p Preliminary.
,One year only.
Table 58,
CABBAGE SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Average
District
District
1
District 3
State total
Farm
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
180
20
Pounds
123,000
10,000
200
133,000
f Unavailable.
47
farm price
Cash
per
receipts
from farm
marketings
$59.00
$72,600
5,900
hundredweight
$78,500
Table 59. OTHER VEGETABLE SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Kinds
Farm
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
385
100
325
Beets
Carrot
Cucumber
Kale
Lettuce
36,900
45,000
72,800
46,500
128,500
4,400
73,800
31,900
3,400
8,900
98,700
88,400
85
265
30
40
Melons
Parsnips
60
Pumpkin
Radish
Rutabaga
Squash
5
15
230
230
205
Swiss chard
Miscellaneous,
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
$28.55
34.00
51.65
$ 10,500
40.00
45.00
15.50
30.00
30.00
30.00
46.65
15.40
51,400
2,000
11,400
9,600
1,000
2,700
46,00013,600
15,300
37,600
$201,100
1,975
Total
I* Unavailable.
'Parsley, 5 acres, 290 pounds seed; dandelion, tomatoes, others.
Specialty Crops Statistics for pea seed data.
Table 60.
See Miscellaneous
OTHER VEGETABLE SEED, ACREAGE HARVESTED, BY KINDS, OREGON,
1939-1943 AND 1946.*
1940
1939
Kind of seed
Acres
Acres
Beet
Cabbage
Carrot
Cucumber
Kale
Lettuce
I
I
I
I
t
t
30
t
Radish
Rutabaga
I
I
Sweet corn
Swiss chard
I
j
Miscellaneous
I
30
10
85
t
20
t
t
t
t
3
t
85
t
150
t
t
1946
Acres
Acres
Acres
100
300
100
350
385
200
100
325
250
100
500
115
165
265
230
325
1,975
25
230
t
t
t
3
200
125
45
55
75
t
120
385
650
1,840
2,000
175
t
120
t
40
1943
1942
35
50
235
50
100
25
305
Total
Acres`
3
3
Parsnips
1941
t
800
110
175
t
85
40
5
15
t
* Data for other years unavailable.
f Included in others.
Table 61.
CERTIFIED SEED POTATO ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1936-1947p.
Year harvested
1936-1945
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
Farm
Area
harvestedt
production
(clean seed)*
Acres
Pounds
2,190
3,700
3,320
4,260
3,270
2,990
27,287,000
30,946,000
40,408,000
44,608,000
56,086,000
62,112,000
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
$1,254,000
YDraetlairnipunrshed by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture.
t Taken from the records of the O.S.C. seed certification specialists and rounded.
Unavailable.
48
Table 62.
District and
county,-
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
Washington
Yamhill -
Total, District 1
CERTIFIED SEED POTATO ACREAGE, 1936-1947p.*
4-year
average
average
1936-1939
1940-1944
1945
1946
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
3
2
180
110
63
85
47
96
700
70
985
38
3
5
401
1,099
1,236
32
40
61
1
54
204
59
19
District 2
Columbia
Lincoln
Total, Dis-
trict 2
District 4
Hood River
Umatilla
Total, Dis-
trict 4
District 5
Baker
Malheur
Union
Total, Dis-
trict 5
District 6
Crook
Deschutes
Klamath
Lake
5-year
1947
1
1
29
69
5
1
743
34
44
717
86
933
934
88
1
33
40
18
10
6
2
15
35
18
12
15
41
48
148
280
104
97
56
252
5
3
53
151
381
153
346
118
231
90
887
521
510
1,590
185
74
1,908
17
172
180
1,117
50
495
17
63
4
Total, Dis-
trict 6
2,184
680
1,271
2,625
1,185
State total
2,573
4,260
3,270
* Bask data taken from reports of O.S.C. seed certification officials.
p Preliminary.
1Counties listed only where certified seed potato grown.
'Includes 200 acres in Jefferson County.
49
94
1,469
2,990'
EXTENSION BULLETIN 694
50
Other seed crops
An estimated 3,270 acres of certified seed potatoes were grown
in Oregon in 1946. Production of certified seed exceeded 56,086,000
pounds* that year. Cash receipts from farm marketings in 1946 are
estimated at $1,254,000. These figures do not include noncertified
potatoes grown for seed. Cash receipts for other years are not available for comparison. White Rose, netted Gem, and Burbank, in that
order, were the principal varieties of certified seed potatoes grown in
the state in 1946. Table 62 shows acreage, production, and cash receipts from farm marketings of certified seed potatoes.
An estimated 1,200 acres of lotus seed were grown in Oregon in
1946. Oregon farmers received a total of $89,000 from sales of lotus
seed that year. Lotus is a comparatively new Oregon seed crop which
is gaining in popularity as a covet crop in some parts of the United
States. The average price paid to Oregon farmers for their lotus
seed in 1946 was about $93 per hundred pounds.
A total of 410 acres of sugar beets was grown in Oregon for
seed purposes in 1946, compared with 1,550 acres in 1942 and 550
acres in 1945. Total cash receipts from farm marketings of this
crop were $108,000 in 1946, compared with $178,000 in 1942 and
$112,000 in 1945. About $156,000 was derived from this source in
1947, when 630 acres of sugar beets were harvested for seed. Further information on sugar beet seed acreage, production, price, and
cash receipts from farm marketings is contained in Tables 65
through 68.
An estimated 100 acres of hybrid seed corn, 245 acres of rape
for seed, and 625 acres of mustard seed were grown in Oregon in
1946.
Table 63.
LOTUS SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Counties
Area
harvested
Farm
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Multnomah
Clatsop
Jackson
35
10
100
15
250
775
Other counties'
acres.
Production figures unavailable.
1,200
5
acres; Coos,
weight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
700
6,100
900
25,000
72,000
$93.00
93.00
93.00
93.00
93.00
93.00
$ 1,800
107,000
$93.00
$89,000
.,
15'
State total \
'Washington, 5 acres; Yamhili,
Pounds
2,300
Average
farm price
per
hundred-
I
600
5,200
700
20,700
60,000
acre; Lincoln, 2 acres Douglas, 2
* Reported by Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture in
bushels converted to pounds at the rate of 60 pounds per bushel and rounded.
Table 64.
LOTUS SEED ACREAGE, 1941-1947.
District and county*
19441
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
10
35
10
100
100
10
15
15
25
18
District 1
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Multnomah
10
Polk
Washington.
Yamhill
5
5
Total, District
District
210
10
1
2
150
Clatsop
Columbia
25
170
388
225
250
400
20
Coos
1
Lincoln
2
Total, District 2
District
150
225
253
421
2
750
750
775
15
775
750
750
777
790
1,000
1,200
1,599
3
Douglas
Jackson
Total, District
State total
3
900
p Preliminary.
* Counties listed only where lotus seed is grown.
'No acreage reported before 1944, except Jackson County with 160 acres in 1941, 200
acres in 1942, and 250 acres in 1943.
Table 65.
Year harvested
1939'
1940-1944 average
SUGAR BEET SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1939-1947.
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
565,000
1,570,000
1,780,000
1,226,000
1,163,000
803,000
769,000
1,112,000
350
1,000
1,550
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
Farm
900
750
550
410
630
Average
farm price
per
hundred-
Cash
weight
receipts
from farm
marketings
7.50
$ 42,000
10.20
10.00
12.00
14.00
14.00
14.00
14.00
153,000
178,000
147,000
163,000
112,000
108,000
156,000
'Data unavailable for previous years.
Table 66. SUGAR BEET SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1946.
Counties
Benton
Linn
Marion
Polk
Jackson
State total
Farm
Area
harvested
production
(clean seed)
Acres
Pounds
Average
farm price
per
hundredweight
Cash
receipts
from farm
marketings
32
27
240
78
33
44,000
49,000
396,000
192,000
88,000
$14.00
14.00
14.00
$
14.00
14.00
6,100
7,000
55,400
27,000
12,500
410
769,000
$14.00
$108,000
51
Table 67.
SUGAR BEET SEED ESTIMATES, OREGON, 1947p.
Area
harvested
Counties
$
8
630
1,112,000
$14.00
$156,000
293
93
8
100
Table 68.
District and
county*
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Lane
Linn
Marion
Polk
Washington
Yamhill
Total, District 1
District 3
Jackson
Josephine
Total, District 3
receipts
from farm
marketings
$14.00
14.00
14.00
14.00
14.00
14.00
14.00
40
88
State total
p Preliminary.
Average
per
hundredweight
Pounds
62,000
158,000
487,000
171,000
21,000
202,000
11,000
Acres
Benton
Linn
Marion
Polk
Yamhill
Jackson
Deschutes
Farm
production
(clean seed)
8,800
22,100
68,200
24,000
2,900
28,400
1,600
SUGAR BEET SEED ACREAGE, 1939-1947.
5-year
average
1939t
1940-1944
1945
1946
1947p
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
15
120
90
32
40
60
27
240
78
293
5
25
10
85
41
29
180
261
90
88
49
4
130
116
10
150
763
380
377
522
50
159
50
33
100
33
100
410
630
10
93
8
15
50
174
50
150
63
120
District 6
Deschutes
Klamath
Total, Dis-
trict 6
150
120
63
State total
350
1,000
550
* Counties listed only where sugar beet seed is grown.
t Figures unavailable for years before 1939.
p Preliminary.
10ne year only.
52
8
Table 69.
District and county'
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Linn
Marion
Washington
HYBRID SEED CORN ACREAGE, 1940-1946.1
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
5
4
24
36
41
36
104
62
57
10
35
1
10
21
90
2
3
Total, District 1
24
36
Jackson
Malheur
State total
24
36
8
44
36
151
78
10
31
17
10
95
100
6
5
41
18
60
72
210
'Data taken from the records of the O.S.C. seed certification specialists.
'Counties listed only where Hybrid Seed Corn grown.
Table 70.
RAPE SEED ACREAGE, 1941-1947p.
District and county*
District 1
Benton
Clackamas
Linn
Marion
Polk
Yamhill
Total, District
District 2
1941
1945
1946
1947
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
20
60
140
50
30
150
100
25
25
25
60
245
300
60
245
300
10
15
10
20
1
75
Total, District 2
State total
125
Columbia
125
200
p Preliminary.
* Counties listed only where rape seed is grown.
53
Table 71. MUSTARD SEED ACREAGE, 1940-1947p.
District and county*
District 1
1940
1941
1942
Acres
Acres
Acres
Benton
Linn
Polk
Total, District 1
District 4
Morrow
Sherman
Umatilla
Wasco
Total, District 4
District 5
1945
1946
1947
Acres
Acres
Acres
15
..... ...
2,250
2,250
Klamath
Lake
Total, District 6
2,250
50
25
50
65
25
500
200
600
200
625
230
250
350
800
1,500
400
4,915
1,400
1,500
400
30
25
25
750
450
750
450
2,300
915
1,170
Total, District 5
District 6
50
1,200
500
3,185
30
Baker
Malheur
Union
State total
1944j
Acres
1,225
25
30
30
75
60
75
6,200
1,500
p Preliminary.
* Counties listed only where mustard seed is gro
t No data available by county for 1943.
54
30
30
100
OREGON'S SEED CROPS
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on twelve groups of farm products produced in Oregon. As rapidly as
possible to complete the data, statistical bulletins for each group
giving acreage and production data are issued by the Oregon State
College Extension Service. In some instances, where the need is
urgent for specific commodity data, mimeographed Extension statisti-
cal circulars are issued that are of value until the more complete
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Oregon Agricultural Statistical Bulletins
At the present time, bulletins containing Oregon agricultural statistics include the following :
Extension Bulletin 694, Oregon's Seed Crops, 1936-1947
Extension Bulletin 692, Oregon's Grain and Hay Crops, 1869-1947
Extension Bulletin 684, Oregon's Meat Animals and Wool, 1867-1947
'Extension Circular 527, supplementing Extension Bulletin 692
Extension Bulletin 680, Oregon's Dairy Industry, 1867-1947
Extension Bulletin 679, Oregon's Specialty Animal Industries, 1936-1946
Extension Bulletin 678, Oregon's Farm-Raised Poultry Products, 19091947
Extension Bulletin 677, Oregon's Specialty Horticultural Crops, 19361945
Extension Bulletin 660, Oregon's Farm Price Data, 1909-1944
Extension Bulletin 656, Oregon's Small Fruit Crops, 1936-1944 (out of
print, being revised)
Extension Bulletin 651, Oregon's Shipments and Unloads of Potatoes
and Truck Crops, 1925-1943
Extension Bulletin 641, Oregon's Farm Products for Market, 1936-1940
Extension Bulletin 640, Oregon's Shipments and Unloads of Tree Fruits,
1925-1943
Extension Bulletin 636, Oregon's Miscellaneous Specialty Crops, 19361943 (being revised)
Extension Bulletin 631, Oregon's Tree Fruits and Nut Crops, 1910-1943
(out of print, being revised)
Other statistical bulletins are in the process of preparation, including one on Oregon's Potato and Truck Crops,
1920-1947.
Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics
Wm. A. Schoenfeld, Director
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