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. Seed costs per acre for 1921 and 1923 were determined by adjusting the 1922 seed costs per acre by the percentage of change in price of seed for each of these years, as compared with the price of seed in 1922. In Idaho, however, the price per pound paid by farmers for beet seed was 20 cents for each of the three years. Prices per pound of seed were obtained from the farmers in the areas investigated and were checked against the factory-grower contracts. Commercial fertilizer costs for 1921 and 1923 were obtained by adjusting the 1922 fertilizer costs per acre by the percentage of variation in the market prices of fertilizer in those years. In Michi- gan and Chio, the two States in which beet growers used commercial fertilizer, the prices ® of fertilizer in 1921 and 1923 were, respectively, 15.7 per cent and 31 per cent higher than in 1922. Consequently the factors used in multiplying to obtain the 1921 and 1923 costs were 1.157 and 1.31, respectively. In like manner land charges for 1921 and 1923 were determined by applying to the 1922 land charges a factor of change based upon the percentage change in the “value of good plow lands,” as shown in the Yearbooks of the Department of Agriculture. For example, the value of good plow lands in Idaho was reported to be 16.4 per cent greater in 1921 and 15.5 per cent less in 1923 than in 1922. Conse- quently, to obtain the respective land charges for 1921 and 1923, the 1922 land charges as obtained in the field investigation were increased 16.4 per cent in the one case and decreased 15.5 per cent in the other. Yields for the three years.—The yields per acre for 1921, 1922, and 1923, were obtained from the farmers themselves and were checked against the factory records except in Michigan and Ohio, where the 1923 crop had not been harvested when the investigators were in the field. For these two States the 1923 yields were determined from data furnished by the United States Department of Agriculture. The 1922 yields for the farms investigated were increased or decreased for 1923 in proportion as the yields for that year in the respective States deviated from the 1922 yields. If the average yield for all farms was 10 per cent lower in 1923 than in 1922, the average 1923 yields for the farms investigated were determined by reducing the 1922 yields for these farms by 10 per cent. Method of weighting.—The annual averages for each State for 1921 and 1923 were arrived at by weighting on the basis of the 1922 production; the three-year average by weighting the commission’s data for each year by the total production of the State as reported by the Yearbooks of the United States Department of Agriculture. The averages for the United States were obtained by weighting the State costs by the total production of the State in each of the three years, respectively, as shown in the Yearbooks of the Department of Agriculture, and are combinations of data for the nine States only. Additional data.—In addition to the data on the costs of production and returns to the growers, the commission obtained, for the areas investigated, much supplemental information on the economic status of the sugar-beet industry—its present limitations, the possible in- crease in beet acreage under existing conditions of farm manage- ment, the effect of the sugar-beet crop upon yields of other crops planted subsequently on the same ground, the effect of the beet- sugar factories upon land values, and other valuable data. $ The prices of fertilizer were furnished by the soil improvement committee of the National Fertilizer Association 5

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