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- http://oregonstate.edu/dept/coarc/st.htm
1997 EVALUATION OF SUGAR BEET VARIETIES IN CENTRAL OREGON by Marvin Butler. It is an evaluation of sugar beet varieties in central Oregon was conducted in commercial fields near Culver and Prineville. Sub-samples of seed for the twenty-seven varieties were sent to the Beet Sugar Development Foundation to be evaluated for curly top resistance. The 3-row x 22 ft plots were rated for stand establishment prior to plants being hand-thinned to 7 inches apart on May 13 in Culver and May 22 at Prineville. A single row per plot was harvested at both locations on October 6, and samples evaluated by Spreckles Sugar for weight, percent sugar, and ppm nitrate.
- http://www.isds.duke.edu/computing/S/Snotes/node142.html
- http://www.sucrose.com/lbeet.html
How Beet Sugar is Made - the Basic Story has the story of sugar beets.
- http://www.sucrose.com/
Imperial Sugar Company has the various brands, history and FAQ.
- http://www.imperialholly.com
- http://www.maffra.net.au/beetm2/index.htm
Maffra Sugar Beet Museum has information about this museum.
- http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=02910000
Sugar Beet information and images from Encarta.
- http://www.fb.com/views/focus/fo98/fo1026.html
Sugar Beets - A Sweet Proposition is an article about sugar beets.
- http://www.sbreb.org/brochures/SugarCoop/index.htm
Southern Minnesota Sugar Cooperative has Facts about sugarbeets and beet sugar.
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Sugar beets are a principal source of sugar for areas with temperate climate. Sugar beets are grown, harvested mechanically by digging the plants, cutting off the top of the root with adhering leaves and trucking to sugar mills. These roots are thoroughly washed, cut into thin strips [cossettes or chips], and the sugar removed by diffusion of the chips with hot water. The hot water or "raw Juice" has a sugar content of 10-15%. Nonsugars are than precipitated with lime and CO2 gas and filtered. This results in a "thin juice" that is run through a series of five steam-heated vacuum evaporators. The final super-saturated solution is "seeded" with sugar crystals to promote the crystals which are removed by centrifugation. This separated molasess is reboiled and recrystallized and centrifuged to remove additional sugar. This continues and continues until the final sugar product is obtained.
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