
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, July 6, 1990                   TAG: 9007060714
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: EVENING 
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FARM PLANTINGS UP IN VIRGINIA

Tobacco, peanut and corn plantings in Virginia are up this year, according to a June 1 survey by the Virginia Agricultural Statistics Service.

Farmers planted 530,000 acres of corn this spring or 20,000 acres more than in 1989, the service said. Soybean plantings, however, were 540,000 acres, down 10,000 acres from last year.

Roughly two-thirds of the state's corn acreage is harvested for grain with the bulk cut for storage in silos.

Farmers planted 52,290 acres of tobacco in Virginia this year up 5 percent from last year. The 95,000 acres of peanuts planted is 3 percent ahead of 1989.

"This has been one of the best all around spring planting seasons in recent memory," said Bob Graham, state agricultural statistician.

-Staff report

by CNB