COST OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS IN UTAH AND IDAHO. i7 
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 
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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 80 per cent of the operators, 81 per cent 
of the harvested acreage, and 89 per cent of the total production are 
covered by a cost of $12 per ton or less. 
48116°—21—Bull. 963-3 
