Idaho

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Identifikator:: 1795100052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179691

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Idaho

Edition:: [Rev. ed.]

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: VII, 80 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Report on the farmers' costs of production of sugar beets in Idaho for the years of 1921. 1922, and 1923

Collection:: Economics Books

COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS REPRESENTATIVENESS OF THE INVESTIGATION The commission desired to obtain data which would show the costs of producing sugar beets in the various regions and for the country as a whole. As it was of course impracticable to obtain costs from all growers, representative areas in the chief producing regions were selected. The records obtained for the 22 selected areas cover 2,242 farms in the nine States—Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, [daho, Wyoming, Montana, and California. These nine States produced 94 per cent of the total beet tonnage and included 92 per cent of the acreage of sugar beets harvested in the United States in 1922. The area investigated produced 12.1 per cent of the total tonnage and was 10.4 per cent of the total acreage planted in sugar beets in the United States that year. The per- centage of the production investigated in tbe individual States ranged from 6.5 in Idaho to 27.3 in Wyoming. For the individual areas so visited the commission’s figures cover from one-fifth to one- half of the beets produced. The beets for which cost data were obtained were manufactured into sugar in 58 of the 81 beet-sugar factories operating in the United States in 1922, In Idaho data were obtained for 106 farms, or 3.8 per cent of the total number in the State that reported the production of sugar beets in the 1919 census. These farms produced 6.5 per cent of the total beet tonnage and had 5 per cent of the total acreage of sugar beets harvested in the State in 1922. As shown in Table 1, page 16, the areas investigated were located in regions of dense production, where sugar beets are an important farm crop. A sufficiently large number of localities and farms were visited by the agents of the commission to make the data obtained representative of the industry as a whole. Table 2, page 18, indicates that the farms investigated grew more acres of sugar beets per farm than did the average farm for the respective States in which the investigations were made, and conse- quently were perhaps operated more efficiently. (See Table 3, p. 18.) The larger acreage of sugar beets on the farms investigated may be partly accounted for by the fact that cost data were not obtained for farms having less than 3 acres of beets per farm, although beets were grown on some smaller farms in each area, especially near the cities. In like manner Table 4, page 19, showing considerably higher aver- age yields per acre of sugar beets on the farms investigated than on all farms in any State, may mean that the farms for which cost data were obtained are better or are operated by better farmers. Table 5, page 20, shows that for the three years 1921 to 1923 the average sugar content of the beets grown in the representative areas of the States investigated was higher by one-half a pound per ton of beets harvested than the average sugar content for all beets grown in the nine States visited, and higher by 1.4 pounds per ton than the average for all beets grown in the 17 sugar-beet States. Table 6, page 21, shows that the three-year average of sugar extracted from a ton of beets for the country as a whole was 258 pounds, while for the nine States covered by the investigation it

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