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Show Orville L. Lee Discloses Utah Goals For 1944 Food Output The 1944 food production goals for Utah have been announced by Orville L. Lee, state chairman of the AAA committe, as state AAA committemen, state office personnel person-nel and farmer-field men awaited a meeting in Logan from Wednesday Wed-nesday through Saturday to lay plans for launching the 1944 agricultural ag-ricultural production program in Utah under direction of the war food administration. The agricultural adjustment agency recently was assigned full responsibility of production goal, work, including crops, livestock, poultry and dairy goals, by Marvin Mar-vin Jones, WFA director, Mr. Lee explained. . . k county in the state to discuss the possibility of meeting these tentative tenta-tive county goals; also, items affecting af-fecting the attainment of goals, such as farm machinery, transportation trans-portation facilities, labor, credit, conservation practices, prices supports sup-ports and ceilings, will be dic-sussed. dic-sussed. Details on county meetings meet-ings and goals will be announced later, Mr. Lee said. The goals which have been approved ap-proved for Utah are as follows: Wheat, 275,000 acres, up 17 per cent over 1943, with increases confined to dry-land areas; dry beans, 20,000 acres, up 100 per cent over 1943 proluction; sugar beets, 50,000 acres, up 43 per cent over 1943; corn, 30,000 acres, up 7 per cent over 1943; tame hay, 500,000 acres, up 1 per cent over 1943; truck crops for fresh market, mar-ket, 5400 acres, up 33 per cent over 1943; processing vegetables, 30,470 acres, up 4 per cent over 1943. Decreases are needed in oats, 35,000 acres, down 30 per cent below 1943; rye, 5000 acres, down 17 per cent; barley, 160,000 acres, down 2 per cent; and a total decrease de-crease in the acreage of idle cropland. Proposed livestock goals, representing repre-senting an effort to bring livestock live-stock numbers more in line with available feed supplies, are as follows: Milk production, 665 million pounds, up 6 per cent over 1943; number of producing dairy cows, 113,000 head, up 5 per cent; eggs, 31,000,000 dozen, up 12 per cent; hens and pullets, 2,930,000, up 18 per cent; chickens raised, 4,600,000, up 14 per cent; sheep and lambs on farms January 1, 1942, 2,470,000, about the same as in 1943; turkeys, 1,234,000, 8 per cent below 1943; hogs to farrow in spring, 21,000 head, 25 per cent below 1943; hogs to farrow in fall, 16,000 head, 36 per oent below be-low 1943; all cattle and calves on farms January 1; 1945, 473,000 head, 4 per cent below 1943; all beef cattle and calves on farms January 1, 1945, 112,000 head, 5 per cent below 1943. Under ' this assignment, he said state goals have been set up for each agricultural commodity produced pro-duced in the state, taking into consideration the requirements' of the various claimants such as the armed forces, civilians, allies, and i occupied nations, and the production pro-duction capacity of farms. "The tremendous prospective needs for food and fiber will require re-quire maximum production from Utah's farms in 1944," he de. clared. "The needs are such that every crop acre , and every farming farm-ing facility must be put to its most productive use. "This means cropping a larger total acreage than in 1943, and balancing production to obtain the maximum in food nutrients. It also means avoiding soil destroying destroy-ing practices which would jeopardize jeopar-dize the chances for continued high production in the years following. fol-lowing. No arbitrary goals for individual individu-al farms will be assigned this year Mr. Lee said. County AAA rep. resentatives will contact every farm operator in the state and assist as-sist in making out a plan for 1944 that will result in maximum wartime production on each farm. The plan will not obligate a farm-I farm-I er in any way, but will indicate t specifically just what his contribution contribu-tion to the war effort will be. Farmers intentions, recorded on farm plan sheets, will become the final farm goal. The sum of in. dividual farm goals will represent the county goal. However, to guide farmers and county AAA representatives in setting up a farm plan, and to insure production produc-tion of the right amounts of the various commodities needed, the state goals have been broken down into tentative county goals. Recommendations and agencies have been taken into considera. tion in setting up these county goals, Mr. Lee explained. Beginning January 31 and continuing con-tinuing through February 17th. meetings will be held in each |