24 " COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 
TABLE 9.—Wetghted average costs of production and returns to growers from the 
sale of sugar beets 
SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY STATES, 1921, 1922, AND 1923 
[Per ton of sugar beets harvested] 
Amount by which the 
returns to grower 
{rom the sale of sugar 
beets exceed? the 
cost of production of 
sugar beets? 
Average costs! 
Average 
~eturns to 
growers 
rom the 
sale of 
sugar beets 
State and year 
No allow- + Allowance 
ance made | Rade for 
for land | land rental | 
rental and and interest! 
nterest on at 6 per 
other eent on 
capital | other 
capital § 
No allow- Allowance 
mce made made for 
for lana land rental 
ental and and interest 
nterest on | at 6 per 
other cent on 
capital 4 other 
capital § 
United States: 
3-year average... eee cncancnccencacan 
1921, cane —— 
199° mmemmmmcececwmem————ia 
1¢° emma c—n- 
Michigan: 
3-year average. oo e-cooocceeccccaeea- 
1! 7.1 SO, 
1020. smi mmm ——————— 
1922 
$6. 21 
6. 45 
5. 96 
6.07 
7, 52 
7.9¢ 
7.32 
7.18 
$7.70 
6. 27 
8.01 
9.09 
$1.49 
-. 18 
2.05 
3.02 
$0.17 
—1.68 
.69 
1.91 
—. 84 
-2.51 
—.30 
.90 
.39 
-1.82 
. 05 
2.07 
1.15 
—. 43 
2.62 
1.46 
7.13 
7.30 
6. 40 
7. 49 
8. 30 
8. 55 
7.52 
60 
7.46 
6. 04 
7.22 
9. 50 
.33 
-1.26 
.82 
2.01 
Ohio: 
3-year average. .. ccm mma 
1921... m——— 
1922 Ci mee. 
1923... 
Nebraska: 
8-year average. occa. 
1921 eee 
1922... .. . 
1923._.. -. 
Colorado: 
3-yearaverage... oon. 
Niecy SS i wR 
OZ. commer nm —————— 
1923 cee ececac——a 
5. 11 
5. 48 
5. 64 
B. 13 
7.30 
7.82 
"82 
29 
7.69 
6. 00 
6. 87 
9. 20 
1.58 
-. 48 
1.23 
3.16 
5. 25 
5. 69 
1 42 
R. 62 
6. 40 
7. 03 
5. 39 
B. 73 
7.55 
6. 60 
8. 01 
Q. 10 
2.30 
.91 
3.59 
2. 57 
5.79 
5. 60 
3. 156 
h.73 
7.06 
6. 89 
7.62 
6. 85 
7.30 
6. 36 
7.71 
8. 08 
1.51 
.76 
1. 56 
2.35 
.24 
—. 53 
.09 
1. 23 
Utah: 
3-year average. o-oo 
1921 ae cdma 
1922__. : i 
1923. =% 
Idaho: 
3-vear average... .cco-—-  acmcacccca-. 
1921 eee 
1922 aa 
1923 co emma. 
Wyoming: 
3-year average... ooeoooooeocacoocoooo- 
221 COR 
YG cc os BRR Bm 
1923 
Montana: 
3-year average. .-ccueicoceoomccccaan 
1921___.. - 
1922. __. . 
1923... 
California: 
3-year average _...._._.._.__.__. 
L021... cmon mmm mass Sm 
19. mr Sm 
1922 
5. 01 
5.53 
5.82 
5.61 
7.34 
8.16 
7.21 
6. 58 
7.20 
5.50 
8.18 
8. 27 
1.19 
1.03 
2.36 
2.66 
—. 14 
—2. 66 
L97 
1. 69 
5.91 
3.74 
7.08 
R 31 
3. 53 
8. 45 
7.64 
6. 00 
8.37 
8.48 
1.73 
—. 74 
2.93 
9 04 
. 56 
—2.31 
1.84 
2 03 
s 
L12 
—1.48 
.02 
1.13 
1.76 
-.36 
2.42 
2.67 
.23 
-3.06 
-.11 
6. 40 
t When composite figures appear as in the 3-year average for each State and in the figures for the United 
States, whos fhe data for the States investigated are combined. the total tons of sugar beets harvested are 
used as weights. 
3 A minus sign (—) before a figure indicates that costs exceed returns by the amount indicated. 
3 See pp. 8 to 14 for explanation of method of determining costs. 
+ Land rental and other capital charges, paid and unpaid, are excluded from this cost. For the United 
States as a whole cash rental was actually paid on 5.4 per cent of the acreage harvested and share rental 
on 41.7 per cent. On a large percentage of the farms, interest, amounting to 20 cents per acre, or about 1.8 
cents per ton, was actually paid on cash advances made by the factories to the farmers for the payment 
of contract labor. Many of these farms are mortgaged, and interest is actually paid on the farm mortgages 
at rates varying from 5 to9 per cent and averaging 7.14 per cent. In order to put the data for all farms on 
4 comparable basis and simplify tabulations, however, all farms were treated as owned by the operators, 
and taxes and overhead cost on this rented acreage were included as general costs, and all eapital charges, 
whether paid or unpaid, were segregated. 
i The capital charges included here are for all capital emploved in sugar-beet production.