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Show Beet Growers-Manufacturers Growers-Manufacturers Reach Terms According to news dispatches yesterday yes-terday beet growers and manufacturers manufac-turers had reached terms on the 1937 beet contract which is expected will bring the beet producer seven dollars per ton. This is the highest price provided in any contract since : 1932. The agreement reached with the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and the Gunnison Sugar company was completed com-pleted on what is termed the '50-50 contract basis." Other proposals had previously failed to receive ap-proval. ap-proval. i The expected government benefit 1 c payment, estimated to range be-lii be-lii tween $1.92 and $2.10 a ton for Utah growers, when added to the contract price which will be "in excess of $5" under normal producing and market conditions, will net the farmers more than $7 a ton for the first time since 1932, conferees estimated after the Wednesday meeting. "" J. R. Rawlins, president of the """Utah Sugar Beet Growers' association, associa-tion, and R. T. Harris, president of the Gunnison Sugar company, both predicted an exceptional growing pfoseason and urged the farmers to expend ex-pend their beet acreage to the limit. "The agreement reached with the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and the t , Gunnison Sugar company Wednes-,W Wednes-,W day provides that the growers shall - receive half of the net returns from this the sale of sugar and syrup from ihe beets produced under the contact," con-tact," said J. R. Rawlins of Draper, president of the Utah Sugar Beet Growers' association, Wednesday light in a released statement said ";he Salt Lake Tribune. "The agreement applies to the 5teffens house and the non-Stef-'ens house factory operations," he aid. "Association officials expressed the ipinion that with the contract ne-:otiated, ne-:otiated, together with the favor-,ble favor-,ble outlook for benefit payments, nS from the federal government) the armers should increase their beet creage to the limit, and take full dvantage of the satisfactory price " tius provided." "It means the most of the grow-rs grow-rs of any program presented this ear," he continued. "In addition 0) the payment under the 50-50 con-:act con-:act the growers will receive fed-Iral fed-Iral benefit payments of up to 70 ;nts per 100 pounds in each ton of "We're heartily in support of the ;deral program. The growers are ni(f0.thusiastic about it. We feel that "8s things are now the growers are ire of receiving in excess of $7 a j ccm. We also think the program is mel.jffi3Signed very rightly to maintain of ra; ie present quota system, which has jje Q;:en the saviour of the sugar beet o extr.ldustry-" , -(jjjj-The figures in the administration give t;nefit payment. |