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Show BEET PRICES SEI AI IDAHO MEET Farmers Will Receive Increase for Product Utah sugar beet growers' association as-sociation delegates Thursday afternoon af-ternoon reached agreement with representatives of three sugar processors to sell .their 1944 crops under terms of the 1942 grower-processor grower-processor contracts. Closing a two-day discussion of contract terms in the Hotel Bannock, Ban-nock, Idaho growers, led by Preston Pres-ton Ellsworth, Lewisville, Idaho association president, and Noble Hunsaker, Brigham city, Utah as. sociation president, passed a motion mo-tion in favor of the 1942 contract. "Compared with ' some stormy sessions in other years, this was a meeting full of good will," Mr. Ellsworth noted in closing the. conference. "Now that growers and processors are agreed, we are prepared to go into the field, plant more sugar beets in 1944 and work out an effective labor procurement procure-ment program." No increase in the factory price of beets, $9.50 per ton, was made in the conference, but farmers will receive $3 per ton for beets testing test-ing 16.2 per Cent sugar content for their 1944 crop, compared to $1.50 in 1943, from the Commodity Credit corporation, bringing total to-tal payments to $12.50 per ton, highest in history. Local officials who attended the meeting, reported that work will begin immediately to contact growers for acreages. A preliminary prelim-inary survey indicates approximately approxi-mately 25 per, cent more beets will be grown in the county this year. A move started among Utah delegates present to simplify language lan-guage of the contract "so an ordinary or-dinary farmer will know what is in it" was abandoned because of time involved. For sugar beets testing 16.2 per cent sugar content, the national average, the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, the Amalgamated Sugar company, will pay $12.50 per ton. Reviewing delivery dates, payment pay-ment by factories and the CCC to the farmers, operation of sugar beet dumps and acreage plans, the growers sat from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. Thursday before ending the formal meeting. Then association associa-tion officers and Douglas E. Seal-ley, Seal-ley, general manager of the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho company pointed out, "this will be the best price growers have yet had." When, near the close of . the meeting, Mr. Scolley said growers grow-ers should have passed a resolution resolu-tion asking raising of ceilngs on beet pulp and syrup, delegates jokingly remarked that "the processors pro-cessors seem to be well dressed and eating regularly," declined to pass such a resolution. Idaho sugar beet acreage goal for 1944 as set by the AAA is 70,000 acres, compared to 49,000 in 1943; for Utah, 50.000, com-pared com-pared to 37,000 in 1943. |