Springville Herald | 1953-03-05 | Page 3 | Prospects Good for More Sugar Beets

ticipating considerable acreage expansion. ex-pansion. These conditions might seriously jeopardize the sugar beet industry in Utah unless farmers take immediate steps to increase production here. Of the 7,900,000 tons estimated consumption of sugar su-gar in the United States in 1953, 1.800.000 tons has been allocated to domestic beets. Only once in the last five years has the industry reached this quota. However, the possibility of higher production this year is good. Prospects Good For More Sugar Beets 1 Sugar beet production should favorable to producers in 1953 according to reports of members of the Eoard of Directors of the Utah Sugar Beet Growers Association. Asso-ciation. The contract between pro-jessors pro-jessors and growers has been a-grced a-grced upon and contracting is reported re-ported to be in progress, according .o Karl H. Allerman, president of the Utah Central Beet Growers Association. J. Rex Mackey, growers association associ-ation President, reported, upon his return from Washington, that Puerto Rico and some other areas were very inistent that additional quotas be allowed them. Also that some sugar beet areas such as Moses Lake in Washington was an-