date:Sep 17, 2018
His 2,200-acre farm is about 80 miles south of the Canadian border.
Although he rotates his sugar beet crop with wheat, soybeans and potatoes, sugar beets are the backbone of his operation.
Sugar beets are dug from the ground and stockpiled on an outdoor ventilation system that sucks hot air from the pile. When ambient temperature drops to freezing, the fans are reversed, and cold air drawn in and circulated into the pile to keep the beets chilled until they are ready to be processed.
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