An Estimate of Utah's Food Balance
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People in the state have been and continue to be concerned about various measures of self-sufficiency. Numerous studies have been undertaken in the recent past in an attempt to answer this question. ln a conference sponsored by Utah State University, in cooperation with the Utah Department of Agriculture, several authors (D. Liffereth; J. Andersen; A. LeBaron; and W. Park; 1981) attempted to deal with this issue from the perspective of total production potentil for the state relative to the state's needs for food products, where the food need was estimated as calories, net food energy, or some other basic biological measure. While that may be appropriate for measuring some production potential relative to current and expected populations given some measure of "subsistence living", it does not describe the current food balance accurately, given existing consumption patterns.