| Show STATE STATE PLANNING BOARD boarde REVIEWS PROBLEMS 01 OF agriculture e 0 0 chitty five members embers hi of the utah agricultural planning board disclosed problems facing fa farmers amers and homemakers recently at the utah S sate ate agricultural college william peterson chairman of the board and director of the extension service reports I 1 hugh calkins regional conservationist vat for the sil conservation service presented a three point program for meeting postwar post war conditions condi ions in agriculture conservation and development of physical resources which includes erosion and flood control water conservation improved forest practices improved grazing practices and development of small irrigation projects rural facilities and services including rural electrification rural housing hospitalization hospital kation cooperative marketing and processing rural education nutrition and cultural facilities agricultural indus trial relations dealing with the b brad zad economic aspects of agriculture after the war will be centered around the change over from large scale defense production to a postwar post war program j secretary of agriculture wick j ard has set up regional organizations to facilitate the work and county and state planning boards will play prominent roles in the postwar post war program mr calkins predicted when the pendulum finally swings back after this emergency peri period zd we shall find ourselves in in a stronger position than ever eve r before through culling flocks and herds and keeping better breeding stock planning board recommendations regarding crops hitch up very well with the national defense ense program said george F stalling of eden in reporting the work of his committee we must work on increased yields before we consider increased the average sugar beet yield in utah is about 15 tons and it takes about cabout 14 tons to pay the cost of ofa production |
