COSTS OF PRODUCTION AND RETURNS TO GROWERS—
UNITED STATES, BY STATES
TABLE 8.—Weighted 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 acre of sugar beets harvested]
Amount by which the
returns to growers
rom the sale of sugar
beets exceed ! the
2osts of production of
sugar beets 3
Average costs 1
Average
‘aturns to
growers
rom the
sale of
sugar beets
State and year
No allow-
ince made
for land
rental and
nterest on
other
rapital ¢
Allowance
made for
and rental
nd interest
at 6 per
cent on
other
capital §
No allow-
ance made
for land
ental and
nterest on
other
raDital ¢
illowance
made for
land rental
and interest
at 6 per
sent on
other
2apital §
United States:
BYLAT AVELAED. cur wc nmamms mm smi
Ween A ——
192°... PRP
1922
Michigan:
3-Vear Average. ececcccacccrcnccnrcanan-n.
192] cnn nm EES
192° .. -
192
70. 79
70.78
67. 22
73.74
b85. 98
87.26
B82. 52
87.20
$87. 88
68. 81
90. 42
109. 91
$17.09
-1.97
23.20
36.17
$1.90
18.45
7.90
22.71
57. 01-
37.04
31.77
71. 00
78.01
78. 55
72.58
81.45
69. 99
55. 45
69. 67
89. 96
2.98
-11. 59
7.90
18. 96
—8.02
—23. 10
-2.91
8.51
Ohio:
3-vear Average. ceoccecccccccccccecaca.
1921... _—
1922 im
1923__. -
Nebraska:
3-year average. cccucemcccaccnccacccana-
1921__. mm
192 om
192%...
Colorado:
3-year average . cocoa aa.
1921...
1922. _..
1923.
38.71
38. 52
33. 43
32 21
70. 14
70. 59
64. 55
73 33
73.45
54. 18
65. 06
04 20
14.74
-4. 34
11.63
29 OR
3.31
—16.41
.81
20. 96
66. 44
57. 13
54. 54
57. 39
30. 98
32.94
78. 63
RO. 77
95.87
77.88
116. 95
08. 20
29.43
10.735
52. 41
30. 81
14.89
~5. 06
38.32
17.43
72.44
72. 67
38. 88
15 34
88. 44
89. 39
B85. 25
00. 15
91.19
82.49
86. 27
106. 25
18.75
9.82
17.39
30. 01
2.75
-6. 90
1.02
16.10
—-2.42
—-32.77
12.71
25.21
Jtah:
3-Vear average. ooo cocceecceccec—e—e-
921... r-
1922__. mH TS
1923__ oe
30. 18
30. 39
76. 10
3 48
97.97
100. 47
94.28
97. 85
95. 55
67.70
106. 99
123. 06
15.37
-12. 69
30.89
39. 58
[daho:
1-vear average. .
1921... -
LE eevee mmenen.
1923. __ “
Wyoming:
3-vear average aoe ooo ooo.
1921...
1922...
1923.
Montana:
3-vear average._._
1921___.
1922.
197°
California:
RT OAT AVEraZe. ceececcmccmcccccmcemen
92] meme.
CT ccm. RR
18932
31.73
79. 08
79. 57
5. 47
97.90
97. 54
95.73
09 46
106. 00
70.26
122.70
130. 76
24.27
—8. 82
43.13
45. 29
8.10
-27.28
26. 97
31. 30
12.20
72. 10
39. 52
4 17
"31
83.22
37.38
c7
* 02
272
nh a
0.91
-15.88
.22
13. 24
5
92
20.91
—4.25
28. 32
35. 33
2.09
26.11
-1.11
61.01
1 When composite figures appear as in the 3-year average for each State and in the figures for the United
States, where the data for the States investigated are combined, the total acres of sugar beets harvested
ire used as weights.
' A minus sign (—) before a figure indicates that costs exceed returns by the amount indicated.
3 See pp. 8 to 14 for explanation of methods of determining costs.
+ Land rental and other capital charges, paid and unpaid, are excluded from this cost. For the United
tates 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 pay-
ment of contract labor. Many of these farms are mortgaged, and interest is actually paid on the farm
mortgages at rates varying from 5 to 9 per cent and averaging 7.14 per cent. In order to put the data for
ill farms on a comparable basis and simplify tabulations, however, all farms were treated as owned by
lhe operators, and taxes and overhead costs on this rented acreage were included as general costs, and all
*apital charges, whether paid or unpaid, were segregated.
8 The capital charges included here are for all capital employed in sugar-beet production
