Betriebsorganisation und Betriebsabrechnung

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Identifikator:: 176196223X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-144583

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Brasch, Hans http://d-nb.info/gnd/1011578441

Title:: Betriebsorganisation und Betriebsabrechnung

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Stilke

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 139 Seiten; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 4. Die Arbeitsführung

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REPORT ON THE FARMERS’ COSTS OF PRODUCTION OF SUGAR BEETS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE YEARS 1921, 1922, AND 1923 HISTORY OF THE INVESTIGATION On December 19, 1922, two months after the tariff act of 1922 became effective, the Mountain States Beet Growers’ Association, representing the sugar-beet producers of Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, and Wyoming, made formal request to the Tariff Commission for an investigation of the costs, returns, and economic conditions in the sugar-beet industry. Their request was vigorously supported by the sugar-beet producers of other States. Because of the significance of sugar-beet production in the sugar industry of the United States, the commission, on August 7, 1923, voted: * that an investigation under the general powers of the commission is hereby instituted on the cost of production of sugar beets; that the cooperation of the Department of Agriculture in such investigation is invited; and that the advisory board be directed to draft a plan for the conduct of the investigation, f practicable, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture. In accordance with this action the advisory board submitted plans for the investigation which were approved by the commission on August 14, 1923, and this report represents in part the results of that investigation. The direct field investigation of farm costs was begun on Sep- tember 4, 1923, at Owosso, Mich., and was completed at Santa Ana, Calif., four months later, January 4, 1924. The investigation has required about 4,200 days of man labor, 1,270 days of field work in collecting the data from the farmers, and 2,930 days devoted to calculations and tabulations. In all, 78 persons, excluding the farm- ers who gave information on their costs and returns, have taken part in the investigation—20 in the field and 58 in the office. The 20 field agents traveled a total of about 86,000 miles by train and in the sourse of the investigation covered thoroughly by automobile the sugar-beet producing districts in the nine States investigated. be METHOD OF INVESTIGATION The survey method was used in this investigation, that being a renerally accepted and appropriate method of obtaining the produc- bon costs of an agricultural product. Trained agriculturists and cost accountants familiar with agricultural costs and farm practice in producing sugar beets and supplied with cost schedules,’ visited the srowers on their farms and there obtained the necessary data for determining costs. Detailed data for 1922 —At the time the investigation was ordered the greater part of the 1923 crop of sugar beets had not been har- vested. Since the commission desired data for the most recently harvested crop, detailed costs were obtained for the 1922 production. See appendix for form of schedule used.

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