Date of Award:
5-1968
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Applied Economics
Department name when degree awarded
Agricultural Economics
Committee Chair(s)
Lynn H. Davis
Committee
Lynn H. Davis
Committee
Earnest M. Morrison
Abstract
The relative profitability of sugar beets and competitive crops were studied in Box Elder and Cache counties, Utah.
Profitability ratios based on enterprise budget data and resource use requirements were used as a basis for comparison. Sugar beets was found to be more profitable than competing crops in returns per acre, in returns to water used and in returns to fixed investment and management. However, sugar beets was found to be less profitable than certain other crops in returns to operating capital and returns to labor. Also, on land rated low in productivity sugar beets was found to be less profitable than most competing crops.
Linear programming techniques were used in studying the production response of sugar beets at various price levels. An aggregated supply curve was developed showing the acreage response in sugar beet production at varying sugar beet prices for the two county area. The price range over which sugar beet acreage was responsive ranged from $11.70 per ton to a high of $16.70 per ton where the maximum acreage permitted in the model was attained.
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Recommended Citation
Spaulding, Brent W., "Estimated Supply Response of Sugar Beet Production to Changes in Profitableness, Box Elder and Cache Counties, Utah, 1967" (1968). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2963.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2963
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