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Estimated Response Of Sugar Beet Production To Possible Changes In Relative Profitability, Utah, 1969, Darwin C. Allred
Estimated Response Of Sugar Beet Production To Possible Changes In Relative Profitability, Utah, 1969, Darwin C. Allred
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study was designed to determine the relative profitability of sugar beet production relative to other enterprises competing with sugar beets for limited resources and to estimate a production response of sugar beet growers in the beet producing areas of Utah.
Sugar beet producing areas in Utah were delineated. Representative farm units for beef-crop, dairy-crop, and all-crop farms were synthesized. Enterprise budgets were formulated and analysed to ascertain the relative profitableness of sugar beets compared to competing enterprises in each production area.
Linear programming was used to develop the supply response portion of this study. An aggregated supply curve was …