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Show Utah Sugar Beet Growers To Receive Final Payment for 1952 Sugar beet growers of South Utah factory district will receive in the next few days $42,236.00 as a final payment for beets grown in 1952, according to Mr. H. J. cents per ton paid last year. Total payments for 1952 beets were at (he rate of $13.99 per ton of beets compared wilh approximately $13.75 for 1951. This year's total includes direct Company payments of $11.67 per ton and payments made by the Government from funds collected from refiners and beet processors under the Sugar Act of 1918 of $2.32 a ton. Prospects for the future of the beet industry continue bright, according ac-cording to Mr. Kandeis. with 1953 yields expected to be higher than those of last year. More than 85 percent of this year's crop is being be-ing harvested mechanically this fall, ami labor is plentiful. Growers Grow-ers generally report that they expect ex-pect to plant more sugar beets in 1951 than this year. The initial payment for beets grown in 1953 will be mailed Nov. 20 for all beets delivered up to Nov. 5, according- to terms of the I contract, Mr. Sanders reports. Sanders, district manager of Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. Checks will be mailed this week to 523 growers of this area. This will fined sugar produced from 1952 crop to $79,064 00. Total payments for all beets grown for Utah- Idaho Id-aho Sugar Company and its wholly owned subsidiaiy, Gunnison Sugar. Sug-ar. Inc., in 1952, in seven mountain moun-tain states was $13,-1 26 .-1 1 6.00. This year's settlement is made on the basis of a net return of $7.13 per hundred weight of refined re-fined sugar produied from 1952 beets compared with a net return for sugar from 1951 beets of $7.16 Mr. Sanders reported. Final payments this year was made at the rate of 67 cents per ton of beets compared with 67 |
