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Show UTAH CROPS RATED GOOD Unlike other parts of the country where heat and drought have taken their toll, Utah is having a good crop production year. ' Of our three major crops, barley and hay will be at near record production, while wheat will be at a 5 year high. . ' This week, 34 of the winter win-ter wheat and half of the spring wheat have been harvested. har-vested. If yields hold at expected levels, production will exceed 6.9 million bushels bush-els for the State. The barley bar-ley crop is 65 harvested and should produce a record 9.2 million bushels. Hay production is forecast at 2.0 million tons, about the same as last year's record output. |