COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS
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TABLE 15.—Weighted average costs of production, @nd returns to growers from the
sale of sugar beets
SUMMARY FOR UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY STATES, 1921, 1922,
AND 1923
[Per ton of sugar-beets harvested]
Amount by which the
returns to growers
rom the sale of sugar
heets exceed 2 the costs
of production of sugar
heats 3
Average costs 1
Average
-eturns to
growers
from the
sale of
sugar beets
Jtate and year
No allow- Allowance
ance made | made for
for land land rental
ental and and interes
nterest on at 6 per
other ' cent on
capitals | other
capital
No allow-
ance made
for land
rental and
interest on !
other
capital ¢
Allowance
made for
iand rental
ind interest
at 6 per
cent on
other
capital
Per ton
$0.17
—1.68
. 69
1.91
‘Jnited States:
B-VOAr AVOLARE.. cou armsnsmppamumns wwe
1921... PT
1922_. as
1923
Per ton
%6. 21
6.45
5.96
6.07
Per ton
$7.53
7.95
7.32
7.18
Per ton
$7.70
6. 27
8.01
9.09
Per ton
$1.49
—-. 18
2.05
3.02
Michigan:
3-VRAT BVOTARR.. covnranr mre as ss nnn mann
1921. _...- owe mi rom HR RA
1922....... [ES
1923...
Ohio:
3-VOAT SVETAED. ou vnm un sms ms in mi wie
1921... Hm RG Sm AH
1922... ee memaman
1923.__. -
Nebraska:
B3-Y0AT BYBIBED. . oodiv wows wspmnibmws vse
JOE. oc oi mi i im si RR
1922. ee eee emeeceaeae
1923... —-
Colorado:
3-vear average... oc. occea-- a
VRID. «cece SR 0 m0 0 0
1922 ie cccccceacas
192° eee
7.13
7.30
b. 40
7 49
8. 30
B. 56
7.52
3.60
7.46
6.04
7.22
9.50
.33
-1. 26
. 82
2 01
—. 84
2. 51
-.30
. 90
6. 11
5. 48
5. 64
2.13
7.30
1.82
6. 82
1.22
7.69
6. 00
6. 87
9 20
1.58
—.48
1.23
3.16 |
.39
~1.82
.05
2.07
5. 25
5. 69
. 42
5. 62
5. 40
7.03
3.39
8.73
1.55
6. 60
B. 01
R.19
2.30
.91
3.59
2 57
1.18
—. 43
2.632
1. 46
3.79
5. 60
5.15
R73
7.06
5. 89
7.62
B. 85 |
1.30
6.36
7.71
R OR
1.51
.76
1. 56
2.35
HA
—. 53
.09
1.2%
Utah:
B-venr average. ... ..--cecssnenememume.
1921...... RR
1922_..... mcm iwi HP msn
1923 __.... meena
8. 01
B. 53
B. 82
5.61
7.34
B.16 |
7.21 [
8. 58
7.20 |
5. 50
8.18 |
R 27
1.19
~-1.03
2.36
2 66
-—. 14
—~2 60
.97
1. 60
[daho:
3-year average... __.__.______. _..
1921...
1922......
1923...
#yoming:
FYCHL AVOIARD., « ne mens pens sm mms mmm
02 cecum A RR
922... fms
1923...
Montana:
3-year average... .cccccaccmcacan-
92 cannes A
922...
1923...
California:
-vear average... ceo coceca..
02 nmr ER RRR
ST in em i
1923
5. 91
5. 74
3. 44
R4
7.08
8.31
L583
345
7.64
5.00
3.37
R48
1.73
~. 74
2.93
2.904
{
ol
131
1. 84
2 08
{
3. 22
3. 72
5.70
X27
7.09
“76
4
05
7.21
r 90
99
44
86
91
0
.1%
=1.48
.03
1.13
1.76
-. 30
1.41
3. 67
Ls)
na
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| When composite figures appear as in the 3-year average for each State and in the figures for the United
tates, where the data for the States investigated are combined, the total tons of sugar beets harvested are
1sed as weights.
3 A minus sign (—) before a figure indicates that costs exceed returns by that amount.
i See pp. 33-38 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 planted and share rental on
11.7 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 these 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 compar-
able basis and simplify tabluations, however, all farms 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 and treated separately.
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