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An Evaluation Of The Box Elder County Wool Pool And Its Effect On Prices Of Wool Received By Farm Flock Sheep Producers, Ray Finch

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Utah ranks seventh in production of wool in the United States. The states in their order are Texas, Wyoming, California, Colorado, Montana, South Dakota and Utah. Utah produced 11,445,000 pounds of wool in 1963, valued at $5,265,000.

Box Elder is the fifth ranking county in wool production in the state of Utah. The leading counties are Sanpete, Utah, Uintah, Iron and Box Elder. According to census data, Box Elder produced 547,600 pounds of wool in 1959 . According to Agricultural and Conservation Service records, in 1959 89,000 pounds of farm flock wool was sold in Box Elder County. This is …

An Evaluation Of Costs Of Ownership, Custom Work, And Leasing Arrangements Of Farm Equipment Applicable To Dryland Farming In Box Elder County, Utah, Ray Finch

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Today profitable dry farming requires a considerable amount of machinery and equipment. Many farm management people, creditors in agriculture production and farmers themselves recognize that a high percentage of gross income is spent on machinery and equipment. machinery expense represents the largest expenditure on dryland farms in Box Elder County.

Farms in the county are relatively small, but even on the smaller farms most farmers have a complete line of farm machinery. In most cases, the machinery is not used anywhere near its maximum.

Some Box Elder operators are hiring custom work but it is not a general practice and …