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

10 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS The contract rates were charged for these labor items because on the average for all the areas investigated in the nine States 82.4 per cent of the blocking and thinning, 77.3 per cent of the hoeing, and 82.1 per cent of the pulling and topping were actually done under contract by laborers hired specifically for this work at so much an acre; while 13.5 per cent of the blocking and thinning, 16.2 per cent of the hoeing, and 13.1 per cent of the pulling and topping were done by members of the growers’ families, other than the growers them- selves, and 4.1 per cent of the blocking and thinning, 6.5 per cent of the hoeing, and 4.8 per cent of the pulling and topping by the FESS and their regular hired help other than the contract beet aborers. In Idaho the contract laborers did 79.7 per cent of the blocking and thinning, 67.8 per cent of the hoeing, and 81.7 per cent of the pulling and topping; members of the growers’ families, other than the growers themselves, did 15.1 per cent of the blocking and thinning, 21.8 per cent of the hoeing, and 15 per cent of the pulling and top- ping; and the growers with their regular hired help, other than the contract beet laborers, did the remainder. The interest on the advances made by the sugar companies to the farmers for the payment of contract labor is treated separately as a capital charge, and is therefore not included as part of contract labor costs. Horse costs, often referred to as horse-labor costs, were determined by separate inquiries carried on concurrently with the farm study of sugar-beet costs. These inquiries were conducted on a number of the same farms for which beet costs were ascertained. Feeds were charged at farm values, and the man labor required in caring for the horses was calculated at the same labor-cost rates charged against the other farm enterprises. Depreciation was calculated on the basis of the working life of the animal. In determining the horse-labor cost rate per hour, the total cost of depreciation and of keeping the horse was prorated on the basis of the total hours of horse labor chargeable directly to the several farm enterprises. The rates thus obtained include the costs of both the direct and the indirect horse labor. Tractor costs are on the customs or job rate basis for men and machines and thus include wages for tractor operators. As there were relatively few farms on which tractors were used in sugar-beet culture, no separate study was made of the comparative economy of horses and tractors. The tractor farms are therefore included with the nontractor farms in all the tabulations. Seed costs consist of the cost of seed only, the costs of hauling and planting the seed appearing under labor and horse or tractor costs. Commercial fertiluzer cost consists of the cost of the fertilizer only, the cost of applying it being charged elsewhere. Manure costs include only the farmer's estimate of the farm value of manure, not the cost of hauling or applying it. The residual value of manure is taken into account by charging only 50 per cent of its cost to the first crop, 30 per cent to the second crop, and 20 per cent to the third crop. Minor direct costs include those incurred specifically for sugar beets as follows: Spraying material, extra water purchased or rented for irrigation, crop insurance, and any hired machine work, such as planting beet seed and hauling beets to loading station.

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