COST OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS IN UTAH AND IDAHO. 



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Comparatively low yields explain many of the other high costs which 

 are shown in the frequency tables. (Tables XIII to XVII.) 



Seventy-two per cent of these growers produced sugar beets at a 

 cost of $11 per ton or less. The cost groups $5 to $11, inclusive, had 

 75.9 per cent of the harvested acreage and 85 per cent of the total 



VARIATION IN COST PER TON OF SUGAR BEETS 



BASED ON 220 RECORDS 

 1918 - 1919 



DOLLARS ,n,n,.m(T.O-N(n^lnlD^mo)0•-^J(0'tlr)(o^(D(nO'-<Mf^'}■l/1 DOLLARS 



PER TON --'-'•^^^^^-^'^'^tvJNNNCMNNCOnonnC^PER JQf^ 



Fig. 3. — Frequency chart, showiiig raupe in cost per ton. 



production of the farms represented in this study. The average 

 yield for the 23 farms producing at a cost of $11 per ton was 12.3 

 tons per acre. Essentially SO per cent of the operators, 81 per oent 

 of the harvested acreage, and 89 per cent of the total production are 

 coA^ered by a cost of $12 per ton or less. 

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