Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Utah Beet Growers Association records
UUS_COLL MSS 204
3 boxes
1 linear feet
1948-1980
Miscellaneous records, including annual reports, bylaws, reports, and correspondence from the 1960s and 1970s.
Material in English
Processed in May of 2006.
Donated by Harold Thompson, former secretary-treasurer of the Utah Beet Growers Association.
No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the Utah Beet Growers Association records must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives manuscript curator and/or the Special Collections and Archives department head.
Initial Citation: Utah Beet Growers Association records USU_COLL MSS 204, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations: USU_COLL MSS 204, USUSCA.
For much of the twentieth century, sugar beets were Utah's most important cash crop. Farmers grew beets under contract with a sugar company. Two large Utah-based companies, Utah-Idaho Sugar and the Amalgamated Sugar Companies, dominated the industry, processing beets throughout the state.
Growers organized in the 1920s through the American Farm Bureau Federation in order to bargain collectively with the companies for the sale of their crop. Growers associations were organized on local, state, and national levels. The state association negotiated a contract with company representatives every year. Farmers pressed for higher prices through their association. But the association was not limited to bargaining over prices. Grower representatives were present in the scale house ensuring accurate weights and measures, and they checked the tare, they were also present in the laboratory double checking chemical tests. The association looked out for the farmers' interests.
This collection contains reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous business records for the Utah Beet Growers Association from the late 1960s to the 1970s.
This collection is arranged in no discernible order.
Sugar beet industry--Utah.
Agriculture, cooperatives--Utah.
Sugar Beets--Cooperative marketing.
Agriculture
California Beet Growers Association
undated
1
1
California Beet Growers Association
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1
2
Idaho, Oregon, Utah Beet Growers Association
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1
3
Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association
undated
1
4
Utah Sugar Beet Growers Association press releases
undated
1
5
Utah Sugar Beet Growers Association financial statements
1959-1963
1
6
Utah Sugar Beet Company Growers Association tax exempt status
undated
1
7
Utah Sugar Beet Growers Association newsletter
undated
1
8
Jesse Pay tare check report
1973
1
9
Skeen & Skeen lawsuit against The Amalgamated Sugar Company
1979
1
10
Individual sugar content study committee
1973 May-June
1
11
Harold Thompson correspondence
undated
1
12
Utah Sugar Beet Growers Association secretary-treasurer
Glenn L. Taggart correspondence with Harold Thompson
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1
13
About selecting new dean of college of agriculture at Utah State University
Washington Beet Growers Association
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1
14
Cache County Beet Growers Association dues
1967 October 31
1
15
Weber County Sugar Beet Growers Association
1958-1961
1
16
- Beet Sugar Handbook #1 first revision, 1958
- Beet Sugar Handbook #2 second edition, 1961
National Sugarbeet Growers Federation by-laws
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2
1
National Sugarbeet Growers Federation meeting
1972 December 6
2
2
National Sugarbeet Growers Federation convention
1976
2
3
National Sugarbeet Growers Federation resolutions
1973 - 1978
2
4
National Sugarbeet Growers Federation directories
1972-1976
2
5
National Sugarbeet Growers Federation Facts and Figures on Sugar compiled by Richard W. Blake
1948
2
6
American Sugarbeet Growers Association Capitol Sugargram
1977 March 11-1978 April 21
2
7
NFO proposed resolutions
1968
2
8
Farm Credit Employees Credit Union retirement program
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2
9
Hawaii sugar statistics
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2
10
Migrant housing facilities
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2
11
Minimum sugar beet wage rate determination
1949
2
12
USDA Farmer Cooperative Service educational circular #32 "Organizing and Conducting Cooperatives' Annual Meetings"
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2
13
Governor Scott M. Mathson
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2
14
Congressman Gunn McKay
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2
15
Senator Frank E. Moss
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2
16
The Amalgamated Sugar Company tonnage reports, Growers Association dues
1971-1977
2
17
The Sugarbeet
Spring 1973 - Spring 1976
2
18
published by The Amalgamated Sugar Company
Franklin district Whitney station
undated
2
19
contractors, acres contracted, planted and harvested
Ogden and Randall stations
1965-1968
2
20
Twin Falls district growers request division into north side and south side
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2
21
Contract Amalgamated; Utah-Idaho
1969-1972
3
1
Contract information
1974
3
2
Contract information Amalgamated
1975
3
3
Contract information Amalgamated
1976
3
4
Garland and South Box Elder grower lists
1976-1978
3
5
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company letters to stockholders
1970 October 30 - 1975 January 31
3
6
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company: supplemental letters to contracts
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3
7
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company pamphlet
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3
8
"You can't beet sugar beets for stabilizing farm profits:
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company annual report year end
1965 February 28
3
9
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company annual report year end
1970 February 28
3
10
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company annual report year end
1971 February 28
3
11
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company annual meeting of stockholders
1971 June
3
12
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company annual report year end
1973 February 28
3
13
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company annual report year end
1974 February 28
3
14
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company annual report year end
1975 February 28
3
15
U&I Incorporated annual report year end
1976 February 28
3
16
U&I Incorporated price announcements
undated
3
17