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Show PAGE SEVEN ) z agriculturist, Mr. Carver said, and he understands the necessity of volume in order to achieve efficiency in the per unit cost of the crops he produces. By building the volume of his production, the farmer can obtain maximum financial effectiveness from his investment in machinery and labor. I S - i ite " The sugar content of beets delivered by each grower is now determined individually so that he may be paid fully for his own efforts. The same efficiencies that the farmer seeks in fields are sought by the sugar companies in their factories, Mr. Carver noted. At one time small factories were the rule, located comparatively close to the beet fields which provided their raw material. However, the same economic pressures felt by the farmers caused the ultimate consolidation of the small factories into much larger plant complexes. "I am very enthusiastic about the future prospects for our industry," said Mr. Carver. "Utah has had a long and distinguished history in the beet sugar industry, and I look forward to a continuation of our fine relationship a long time into the future." -- CARVER SPEAKS cont. from pg. 2 hi 1958, Mr. Cannon was pro moted to district manager for South Dakota and Nebraska, where he served until transIdaho Falls, as disin 1959. On February 26, 1964, Mr. Cannon was promoted to vice president and ferred to trict manager manager for the production company at the General Office in Salt Lake City, from which position he was appointed vice president. Mr. Cannon serves as member of the Board of Directors of the First Security Corporation. He is Chairman of the Board and a Director of Prior Land Company, Inc., a wholly-own- ed subsidiary of Utah-IdaSugar Company; and a special appointee to the Governor's Agricultural Development Council in Utah. He is a member of the Salt Lake Rotary Club, the Timpanogos Club of Utah, the Alta Club and Sigma Chi social ho fraternity. Mr. Cannon married the former Elith Fillmore of Provo, Utah in 1940. The couple has two sons and a daughter. jOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQi ffoedl "0" Western Seeds DnaipireveinnieiraOs Soil Fumigants, The future of the beet sugar industry in Utah is tied to continuing change and improvement, in the view of Norman Carver, Utah District Manager for Utah-IdaSugar Company. "The industry already has changed so much that the men who started it would be startled by many of the innovations today," said Mr. Carver. "And there is every reason to believe the changes may come even faster in the future." What sort of changes may be expected? Continuing change may be expected in the sugar beet itself, said Mr. Carver. Both in terms of disease resistance and monogerm seed the ho beet is a far different plant than it was when the industry began. Research is providing new var- ieties of monogerm hybrid beets that are expected to yield more sugar per acre than in the past which will be very welcome to both the grower and the sugar company. Sugar beet cultural practices have undergone drastic changes, the manager noted, and this is expected to continue. In the short term, he said, it is to be hoped that spring work in sugar beet fields will become just as mechanized and modern as the fully mechanized harvest This will be accomplished simply by a continuation of present 4 trends toward more extensive use of machinery and selective herbicide. Many of the techniques that will allow handling the sugar beet crop without hand labor are in existence at the present time, hi fact, each year sees an increase in acreage that is handled without the use of field labor. Mr. Carver commented that the trend toward larger acreages being handled by an individual grower is quite consistent with the pattern of agriculture in general and likely, will be an important part of the future. The American farmer is very much a modern businessman in addition to being an EQUIPMENT CO. PHONE 257-53- Bear River Valley's THANK YOU Oldest Form Machinery Dealer We Thank The Beet Salutes One Of The Valley's Oldest Industry's Growers For Having Faith In Our Integrity n SUGAR BEETS! fir Insecticides,. and Herbicides. To Provide The Proper j Products For Producing High Quality SUGAR BETS Moooooooooooooooooooooooeooooooooooooot w |