40 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 
TABLE 14.—Weighted average costs of production, and returns to growers from the 
sale of sugar beets 
SUMMARY FOR UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY STATES, 1921, 1922, 
AND 1923 
[Per acre of sugar beets harvested] 
Average costs ! 
Amount by which the 
returns to growers 
from the sale of sugar 
beets exceed 2 the cost 
of production of sugar 
beets 8 
No allow- 
ance made 
for land 
rental and 
.nterest on 
nother capi- 
tal4 
Allowance 
made for 
land rental 
and inter- 
ast at 6 per 
cent on 
nother capi 
tal 
Average 
returns 
0 growers 
from the 
ale of sug 
ar beets 
State and year 
No allow- 
ance made 
for land 
rental and 
interest on 
other gpk 
talt 
Allowance 
made for 
and rental 
and inter- 
est at 6 per 
cent on 
other capi- 
tal 
Per acre 
$1.90 
—18.45 
7.90 
22,71 
United States: 
B-VRAL AVEIAZRe. cv nnv nme mmm 
TOD re erm HE Ei HE 
1922... ———. mit 
1923 _____ .. 
Per acre 
$70.79 
70.78 
67.22 
73.74 
Per acre 
$85. 98 
87.26 
82. 52 
87.20 
Per acre 
$87.88 
68.81 
90. 42 
109.91 
Per acre 
$17.09 
—1.97 
23.20 
36.17 
Michigan: 
BFOOL BYCPBER. oc vmcmmme ns ssn mm mmm 
it 1 J 
N00. ec cr me EAE Rm 0 mw 
1923. _.._. J . 
Dhio: 
3-year average. cocoon 
IGM mms En 
1922. __ mmm ———————— 
1923 _ SE Tem 
Nebraska: 
3-year average... cirammeean 
1921 eee ere meee 
1922 eee 
1923 occa 
Colorado: 
3-year average... eeeeeoccmcmmmea- 
| E72) 
1922... come emma 
1923... —- 
Utsh: 
3-year average.._._. Rr 
VO2), ci summits SRR SWS 
1022. cen. 0 i 
1923 __._. I —_— 
67. 01 
67. 04 
61.77 
71.00 
78.01 
78. 55 
72.58 
81.45 
69. 99 
55.45 
69.67 
39. 96 
2.98 
~11. 59 
7.90 
18.96 
—8.02 
—23. 10 
—2.91 
8.51 
38.71 
58. 52 
53. 43 
39 921 
70.14 
70. 59 
64. 55 
78.33 
80.98 
82.94 
78.63 
80.77 
88.44 
89.39 
85.25 
90. 15 
73.45 
54.18 
65. 06 
04.29 
14.74 
—4.34 
11.63 
492.08 
3.31 
—16.41 
. 51 
20. 96 
14.89 
-5. 06 
38.32 
17.43 
2.75 
-6.90 
1.02 
16.10 
66. 44 
67.13 
64. 54 
57.39 
95.87 
77.88 
116. 95 
98. 20 
29.43 
10.75 
52.41 
20.81 
72.44 
72.67 
88. 88 
75. 34 
91.19 
82.49 
86. 27 
106. 25 
18.75 
9.82 
17.39 
30.91 
—2.42 
-32.77 
12.71 
25.21 
8.10 
~27.28 
26.97 
31.30 
.91 
-15.88 
.22 
13.24 
32.55 20.91 
9.02 —4,25 
39.90 28.32 
$5.78 36.33 
21.76 2.09 
—5.43 I —26.11 
18. 89 ~1.11 
78.38 61. 02 
1 When composite figures appear as in the three-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 are used as weights. 
2 A minus sign (—) before a figure indicates that costs exceed returns by that amount. 
3 See pp. 33-38 for explanation of methods 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 planted, and share rental on 
41.7 per cent. On a large percentaze 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 to 9 per cent and averaging 7.14 per cent. In order to put the data for all farms on 
a camparable basis and simplify tabulations, however, all far:ns were treated as owned by the operators, 
and taxes and overhead costs on this rented acreage were included as general costs and all capital charges, 
whether paid or unpaid. were segregated 
Idaho: 
3-year average... cceemmemcramana 
1921. .___. JE 
1922 cee meine 
1923... RR 
Wyoming: 
3-year average..__.. mm ml ee wm 
1921... mpm mas 
1922. ___ emem——————— ae 
1923. Cos 
Montana: 
© 3-year average... .. 
1921... 
1922 oe ieee ee 
1923 eal 
California: 
3-year average o-oo cece. 
191 ecm 
19S a ee emcee me 
197