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Show FARMERS URGED T0 PLANT BEETS 1945 State Goal of 43,000 Acres Asked Utah farmers, m planning 1945 operations, today were asked by Joseph Skeen, member of the Utah State AAA committee, to consider seriously the sugar situation situ-ation and plan for as large an increase of sugar beets as pos-seible- Even though the 1945 state goal of 45,000 acres represents an increase in-crease of only 32 per cent over the 1943-44 acreage, Mr. Skeen pointed out that it represents only 88 per cent of the 1937-41 average acreage and is 500 acres less than could be planted in this state according to production capacity ca-pacity studies. "Producers should keep in mind that if we expect to do well with a sugar program in future years, we will need sugar beet history on our farms," Mr. Skeen declared. de-clared. In establishing the 1945 sugar beet goal, primary consideration is given to the requirement and supply situation for the crop Jl year beginning October 1, 1945. It is expected that the supply situation situa-tion will be more critical during 1945 than in 1946. Although 1945 goals would essentially be premised pre-mised on 1946 requirements, some beet sugar produced in 1945 can be marketed late that year, thus easing to some extent the anticipated antici-pated tight station in the fall of that year. U. S. requlremens are premised upon the assumption that no sugar su-gar will be used for industrial alcohol and that rationing con-. con-. trols will be continued throughout the period at approximately current cur-rent levels. Statistics show that distribution to U. S. civilians during the year which ended June 30, 1944, totaled 5,800,000 tons- A sugar beet and sugar cane goal for the mainland, involving an increase of about 600,000 tons of production above 1944, is proposed, pro-posed, Mr. Skeen said. To obtain the required continental production produc-tion of about 2,200,000 tons, would require a sugar beet acreage in 1945 of 951,000 acres, assuming cane sugar production to be at 4 about available processing capacity. capac-ity. The suggested national 1945 sugar beet goal is approximately 50 per cent greater than the acreage acre-age for either of the past- two years but is 100,000 acres less than 1942. Recent developments in the use of segmented seed, mechanical blockers and harvesting machines will result in lowering the labor requirements of the 1945 crop. |