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Show Beets Enrich Utah Farmer THIS YEAR'S CROP YIELDS $84 - PER ACRE ON INITIAL PAY-''MENT; PAY-''MENT; ACREAGE LESS. Despite a markedly reduced acreage, acre-age, the 1925 Utah sugar beet crop may yield a financial return comparable compar-able to the best years of the industry, indus-try, excluding, of course, the unusual un-usual season of 1920, when sugar prices continued almost at wartime levels-: What the season as -a whole has in store for the farmers depends chiefly upon Cuban developments. At present the producers of that country coun-try are in a quandary. A big crop is in sight and, some reports indicate they prefer leaving a portion of the cane unharvested to avoid overloading overload-ing the market. Compilations by the department of agriculture, issued yesterday by Frank Andrews, Utah agricultural statistician, place the per acre harvest har-vest in sugar beets in Utah at fourteen four-teen tons. The Initial payment to farmers by sugar companies is $0 per ton, making the Initial revenue $84 per acre. Succeeding payments will be determined In accordance with the sliding scale contract In operation op-eration between the sugar companies and the farmers. In this contract the amount of money paid In succeeding payments is determined by thi sugar price and sugar content of the beets, for at the time the beets are unloaded and first payment made these two factors are remote.. YloldH Compare Last year was an out year In the sugar beet Industry, but 1 923 was normal. That year the per are harvest har-vest was 12.9 tons, which, with the Initial payment of $6 per ton, made the first payment to the farmera $77. The total payment for beets that year was $8.28. In 1920 the av-rage av-rage return was 12.85 tons per acre, but the total payment of $12 was extraordinary. ex-traordinary. With the ffrst payment this year $84 per acre, the farmora of Utah have a chance to derive a fair profit from thlr beets, which will compensate compen-sate to a certain degree, for tho misfortunes mis-fortunes of 1924. It depends largely upon the sugar market. Future payments pay-ments not considered, the farmers have already rerenved more per acre than tho average of last year. Tho 1!24 harvest averaged but seven tonH to the acre In 1,'tah and total payments amounted to $7, making j total returns $49. Thus farmers this" year, though they harvested approximately approx-imately 20 per cent fewer aereH than In 1 924, already have received more per acre than was received for Ibis 'entire crop last year Tribune. |
