Posted by in-too-deep on September 22, 2014 at 08:53:23 from (64.235.94.33):
In Reply to: Sugar beets posted by JerryS on September 22, 2014 at 08:24:07:
Yep, in my neck of the woods. NW Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. Usually planted first in 22" rows. Then at harvest around Oct. 1st, they remove the tops with a flail-type machine and pull them with a "beet lifter" into trucks which take them to local "pilers". Which are huge piles of beets outdoors. Some with aeration systems, some without. They harvest around the clock through most any weather cause it's a slow process. They then haul them by semi-load into the plants, of which there are a handful up and down the Red River Valley. They slice em and cook em and extract the sugar. Magic, I think. The spent beet "pulp" is then pressed and given away for cattle feed. They also dry it and sell it as dried pulp for feed. Used to be a very lucrative crop, although quite expensive to grow with all the specialized equipment and labor costs. Sugar prices have tanked over the last couple years, some say due to a flood of Mexican sugar on the market. So, sugarbeets are a money-losing situation lately. But, you can't just quit growing them, because you own "beet stock" and you need to supply beets to the company. Make sense? They also grow em in Michigan, like you said, and I think Wyoming, maybe some NW states, too.
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