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Show ; Farmers Pledge ; Crop Increases Utah farmers plan to increase plantings of five of the eight major crops while two others will decrease during the coming season, sea-son, 'according to a planting in- : tendons survey conducted by the U. S. department of agriculture bureau of agricultural economics. According to data gathered in the survey, plantings of corn will bs increased 4 per cent; spring wheat, 8 per cent; sugar beets, 6 per cent; potatoes, 6 per cent; tame hay, 2 per cent; dry beans will remain about the, same as last year, while oats and barley acreages will drop 6 and 5 per cent respectively. ine survey does not indicate that Utah farmers, as of March 1, plan to plant as large an acreage acre-age of sugar beets as has been recommended by the war food administration in setting 1945 goals. The main problems facing farmers farm-ers in 1945 is no different than m the two previous years regard ing sugar beets-they question both the quality and quantity of labor available and the ability to obtain needed machinery. The survey revealed that many farmers indicate they will change over from onions to potatoes due to good prices for the 1944 potato crop and heavy demand in prospect for potatoes in 1945 As a result, onion plantings probably will decrease 25 per cent A summary of the surrey, with esumated 1945 plantings compared with 1944 and the 10-year 1934-43 average, follows: All corn, 28,000 acres 27,000 and 27,000; spring wheat, 73,000, 68,000 and 75 000 oats, 55.000 58.000 and 45000; bar-ey, bar-ey, 150 000, 158,00 and 99.0M sugar beets, 38.000, 35.000 and 4 (.000; dry beans 8,000 , 8,000 and 3.000; potatoes, 19,100, 18,000 and I 14.100. tame hay 529,000, 519,000 1 and 490.000; onions, 1.800 2 400 and 1,100. |