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Show Livestock Accounts for Greatest Rg Receipts LOGAN more than three-fourths three-fourths of the cash Income received re-ceived by Utah farmers from the sale of 1959 agricultural products came from sales of livestock and livestock products, a study Just published by the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural Experiment station reveals. The analysis of cash sales by 1 county and commodity covering the marketing of 1958 crops and - wii" total cash receipts of $162,933,000 is an annual project of the department of agricultural oonomics at Utah State University Univer-sity and is published by the experiment ex-periment station as part of Its "Utah Resources Series." E. M. Morrison, professor and acting head, agricultural economics, econo-mics, emphasized the figure is not to be confused with net income in-come of farmers since production costs were not part of the study. The total includes govemmea payments under the cortsera-tlon, cortsera-tlon, sugar and wool art the soli bank, he said. It does nofc Include value of crops used fcw seed, feed or household use nor Income from off-farm work. Bor Elder County with total cash farm income of $18,168, 01 JM topped all other counties In the state. Utah County, In first place-In place-In 1957, was second and Cache-was Cache-was third in total cash sales. Sheep and wool products-brought products-brought largest cash Income of" any agricultural enterprise iv Iron County with total cash salesc of $1,336,000 out of a total fur the county of $3,930,000. Cattle-and Cattle-and calves, the state's most Important Im-portant agricultural enterprise5 brought cash Income of $1,168,000 to Iron County producers in 193R. Of the county total, $3,2280-came $3,2280-came from cash sales of livestock live-stock and livestock products. Including In-cluding $239,000 for butterfat; $104,000 for hogs and $79,000 for; dairy cattle and calves. j Hay was the county's best casf crops with sales of $248,000 fol- ' lowed by potatoes with. cash, sales of $172,000. Only five counties In the state showed cash Income to farmers in excess of $10,000,000 In , These were in order: Box Ektar.- Utah, Cache, Sanpete and Salt: Lake. Other counties in the toj ten in amount of cash farm Income In-come were Millard, Weber, Daria land Duchesne. |
