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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 May 1966

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 …