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Show SPECIAL SECTION, Pool. Mi. got Paul Pali got into the farm business early. "I started renting ground alone when I was in the sixth grade," he recalls. He worked the ground with his dad's equipment. That first year he planted five acres of beets and did all the handwork himself. By the time high school rolled around he was renting 30 to 40 acres and hiring much of the handwork done. Today the young farmer runs about 800 irrigated acres all but about 100 acres of it rented. Pali was recently named Young Farmer of the Year by the Utah Young Farmer Association. - RC & D Pali . Into claims tafcg LEADER-GARLAN- TIMES. February D 17. 1977. Page ISA oofy renting ground is "just as cheap.. .as it is to own..." "The only bad feature of it is security," he offered. An active member of the Young Farmer organization, Pali is also a firm believer in education. "I'm feeling it more so every day...,", he said. "I wish I had gone into school a lot farther." He graduated from high school but now regrets not having gone to college. Pali credits Young Farmers Association with providing him with a chance to 4O I . g-- HMD 6 E ft t 2 . A430t s i 1,-7;- ', vl',.I. expand his agricultural knowledge through classes, institutes and a chance to meet and talk with other farmers. The farmer has set up a rotation system for his farm planting 300 acres of beets and 300 - 350 acres of wheat or barley, along with 100 acres of corn and 100 acres '.r:, t m of hay. 1969; Tremonton-Garlan- "That way we only go into one piece of ground with d Drain in 1974 and Belmont Drain in 1975. All three e received RC&D grants through the Soil Conservation Service and RC&D loans through the Farmers Home Administration. Grants for the three projects totaled about $270,000 and loans were almost $300,000. An RC&D-FHloan of $30,000 was provided in 1970 for "needed" work on" ""the" Skyway Golf and Country Club. One project that should benefit the whole county was a program conducted to increase rainfall and decrease hail last year, between June 4 and September 30. Funding was provided by the county and Utah Division of Water Resources. Earl Fuhriman, g a member of the RC&D Weather Modification Committee stated, "I hope weather modification is a permanent fixture, because I really feel that it is a tremendous benefit to all of us." Plans are under way to cloud carry on a seeding program in 1977, starting on May 1. Other projects completed in Box Elder County during the last year include Culinary System consti with a Division of Water Resources loan; and the West Fork of Grouse Creek Sprinkler Irrigation System which re e ceived an RC&D grant through the Soil Con servation Service. g projects include p livestock pipeline in Yost, community parks in Park IValley and Corinne; water systems in Portage, Ply- rnouth and Corinne; an ero sion control project in the oothills of the Raft River Mountains, a study of in- ects and diseases affecting imber, and a weed control cost-shar- low-intere- st A five-mon- th se cost-shar- program. Many other projects are in he preliminary investiga-io- n or application stage, Including a $1.4 million pater system improvement or the city of Tremonton. beets about every third year," he explained. In the off years, Pali attempts to build the soil through fertilization to peak during the beet crop. He has also taken advantage of soil testing provided through Utah State University in Logan. The goal is to balance out the fertility of the soil for each crop, yet leave a plus, since the beet crop requires more from the soil. Pali works his farm with the help of hired hand, Lyone Cutler. He has praise for Cutler and some definite thoughts about how a hired hand can make or break an operation. Pali says too many young men of today want to work on "their hours and their terms." "One in ten people now want to work and the others don't care because the government will feed them," he added. "Believe me, I've had them actually cost me more money than anything else." Pali said he actually opted by buying bigger and more expensive equipment to keep from hiring "as much help." "If I didn't have as good a hired man as I've got, I couldn't begin to handle the ground I've got," Pali admitted. He said there is a "fine line" between the farm operator and a good hired hand. "He don't have to sign his name on the debt mortgage and I do." Besides a good hired hand, most farmers today need a good banker as well, Pali said. "My banker gets to know how I sleep, when I sleep, when I get up. I don't like to keep any secrets from him... that makes for a good relationship." "He is your partner," he continued. "The two of you talk over your plans and if it looks good, you do it, and if it don't, you won't." . .PAUL PALI and hired hand Lyone Cutler are shown with one of the more costly pieces of modern farm eauioment that today's farmer must have. -- "Having a good banker behind you and a good relationship with him is one of the success items in farming today," Pali observed. The Tremonton farmer says the honest farmer gets into debt because of today's low prices or problems with the weather. ' 'It's a risky business. . .but when a man does everything he can do, he shouldn't be condemned. ..because it's beyond his control," he said. Pali said the year 1974 put a lot of farmers "in the position to where we can't back out. That's the year wheat and sugarbeet prices were sky high and farmers had it good for a time." Pali, for instance, found himself with so much money all of a sudden, he had to go out and spend it on equip- - Sugar boots million in the last five years. In addition, U and I Incorporated payrolls in the state last year came to more than $4,486,000. Expenditures for transportation, operating supplies and services and plant improvements to- taled more than $6,860,000. Federal, state and local taxes exceeded $1,760,000. The value of the related industry and commerce resulting from Utah's sugar industry is difficult to assess. But, if you consider only a few, such as farm equipment, fuel, commercial canners, bakers, bottlers, fruit processors and candy makers, the volume of business and sugar-relate- d commerce reaches large n proportions. Much sugar is also exported to other states, bringing valuable export dollars back Utah-grow- into our economy. At the present time, Utah's sugar industry, along with the entire U. S. domestic sugar industry, is struggling through one of the most serious periods of its history. Following the short period of unprecedented' high prices in late 1974 and 1975, the sugar market went into a continued decline, going below the break-eve- n point where it has remained for many months. The returns to both growers and processors at such low level prices are below the cost of produc-- , tion, while operating costs continue to rise. Government and industry leaders are attempting to find solutions to the problem, but no definite measures have been taken to date beyond the small increase in duty on imported sugar set by President Ford last September. U and I Incorporated has indicated that every effort is being made to maintain operation of all their factories. Costs and expenditures are being trimmed to the bare essentials and some reduction of work force has become necessary. It is hoped that this will need to be only temporary. ment to try and keep any of it safe from Uncle Sam. But those prices aren't sky high any more. After getting $48 a ton in 1974, 1975 prices dropped to $24 a ton, on the average. Expenses didn't go down, though. Pali says for the farmer today it becomes a question of "how far in debt you're willing to go." "A guy's got to set his crop five to ten years ahead of how far in debt he wants to be in five years..." and JT what shape he wants to be in. Pali said banks will have to look at the farmer's ability to produce. "He (the banker) knows that you're broke... and he'll look at what I did last year and under what conditions." Pali said he's had "opportunity after opportunity" to manage a farm for someone else. But, he says "no" because I don't want someone looking over my P M ARMACY Keith Frczor M. 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