Beet sugar, while much less important to the average United States farmer than wheat, maize or cotton, also furnishes Government officials with cause for irritation. This year's beet sugar crop will be 11,138,000 tons, an all-time record high, compared with 8,749,000 tons in 1937 an increase of 27 per cent.
Anticipating this bumper yield, raw sugar prices recently declined to near record lows. The answer to the sugar problem suggested by growers is similar to that in the case of other farm commodities some form of Government assistance. In this instance, it will probably take the form. of a reduction in import quotas—United Press.
These subsidies have taken various forms, including payments to individual farmers for curtailing acreage planted and loans on such commodities as cotton and wheat. Such government loans in several cases have exceeded the selling price of the commodity in the open market.
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