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Show Utah Crop Forecast Fore-cast for March The acreage of hay and the main spring planted crops of Utah for 1933 is now estimated at 842,000 compared to 859,000 harvested for the same crops in 1932. These crops include spring wheat, oats, barley, corn, potatoes and tame hay. The spring wheat acreage is expected to amount to 68.000 compared com-pared to 76,000 harvested in 1932, and the potato acreage is now expected ex-pected to be about 12,000 or 3,000 less than last year. On the other hand the acreage of oats for 1933 is expected to be about 57,000 compared com-pared to 54,000 last year, and barley bar-ley acreage is forecast this year at 45,000 compared to 44,000 harvested in 1933. No change in the acreage of tame hay or corn is expected. Alfalfa and other tame hay together to-gether amounted to 650,000 acres in 1932, while the corn crop was harvested from 20,000 acres. ! For the United States as a whole the total acreage of spring wheat, including durum, is forecast at 20,-986,000 20,-986,000 for 1933, compared to 21,-521,000 21,-521,000 harvested in 1932, a decrease de-crease of 535,000 acres. The corn acreage of 1933 is forecast at 103,-934,000 103,-934,000 compared to 107,729,000 harvested har-vested last year and the potato acreage of 1933 is now forecast at 3,185,000, as against 3,368,000 harvested har-vested in 1932. Oats and barley both are to have reduced acreages, according to the present forecast, and a slight increase is expected in the acreage of tame hay. These forecasts are based upon reports from farmers as to their intentions to plant, reports made about the first of March, 1933. i |