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Show Beet Adjustment Approved by Growers Representatives of sugar beet growers in all producing sections of the country approved with slight modifications the proposed sugar beet benefit contract which is to be presented to the growers within two or three weeks, and expressed then-confidence then-confidence in the whole sugar program, pro-gram, according to word received by! William Peterson, director TJta.h Extension Ex-tension Service. Mr. J. W. Rawlins of Draper, Utah, president of the Utah Sugar Beet association, was in the meeting to discuss the contract with John E. Dalton, chief of the sugar section, and other officials of the Agricultural Agricul-tural Adjustment Administration. I For the United States continental beet area a benefit contract is being developed, seeking to adjust sugar ; beet production to the marketing quota as established in the Costigan-Jones Costigan-Jones Act. a n result of the drouth this year, it is anticipated that the carryover carry-over of beet sugar on January 1, 1935, wall be approxma'tely one million! tons. This represents a reduction of approximately 400 thousand tons! in a year and is considered a normal j stocks figure for the first of the year. In addition to the domestic and insular programs for production adjustment, ad-justment, imports of sugar from foreign countries, including Cuba, are limited by quotas. The production produc-tion control programs for both beet and cane sugar are to be made effective ef-fective through contracts entered into in-to between the Secretary of Agricul- ture and individual producers. These contracts will provide for adjustment payments to growers from funds accumulated ac-cumulated from the processing tax cn sugar. The contract is in the final stages as preparation and upon its approval approv-al by the Secretary of Agriculture it will be rushed to the growers oi uum for signatures. It is expected that definite arrangements will be made within the next two weeks. |