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Stepping back in time…”The Beetdiggers” remind us of our roots
By Julian Craveiro Posted October 20th, 2015 by Brush News-Tribune In honor of beet season I thought it appropriate that we look at a historical building that, although is not here anymore, is a key piece of this community’s history. Beet farming in the 1800’s is what drove the local economy of Morgan County. Fort Morgan and Brush … Read More
Sugar beet waste product touted as billion-dollar ‘wonder material’
Sugar beet waste product touted as billion-dollar ‘wonder material’ Posted September 16th, 2015 by Reuters Media A Scottish company which has developed a material made from sugar beet waste believes the sky is the limit – literally. Cellucomp says its Curran product is twice as strong as carbon fibre and could one day be used … Read More
The Beet Factory
The Beet Factory Posted September 4th, 2015 by Charlevoix Courier In 1902 it was announced that a sugar beet factory would be erected in Charlevoix to the south of the D. M. & Ferry & Co. seed warehouse, now the Foster Boat Works Association condominium, along the Lake Charlevoix shoreline at the intersection of the railroad … Read More
When Things Speak: The Beet Knife
Posted May 2nd, 2015 by NET In the 1870s, thousands of Germans from Russia left Russia for the United States. By 1910, the US census counted 13,000 Germans from Russia in Nebraska alone. Diane Wilson says these new immigrants started transitioning to American life by continuing a lot of their own traditions, especially when it came … Read More
How Sweet It Is
How Sweet It Is Posted April 20, 2015 by Mollee Francisco, Chaska Herald For more than a century, sugar has been the name of the game at 1060 Stoughton Ave. in Chaska. The sugar factory — now owned by United Sugars Corp. — has been churning out the sweet stuff on the eastern edge of downtown … Read More
The story of monogerm sugar beet seed
By Robert M. Harveson Extension Plant Pathologist PREC, Scottsbluff Posted February 22nd, 2015 by Star Herald Botany of the sugar beet As the sugar beet is a biennial plant, vegetative growth during the first year is required for bulking sucrose in the roots for the following year’s reproductive growth. Sugar beets tend to behave as a perennial … Read More
California Farmers Turn Sugar Beets Into Energy
By Lesley McClurg Posted January 22nd, 2015 by Capital Public Radio Struggling sugar beet farmers in the San Joaquin Valley are turning their crop into energy instead of sweetener. A cooperative of nine sugar beet farmers just opened a demonstration biorefinery south of Fresno. They’re called “energy beets.” They look like a red table beet, but they’re … Read More