date:Oct 30, 2012
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The harvesters fill each truck with about 13 tons of sugar beets, all of which will head 250 miles away to Amalgamated Sugar of Nampa, Idaho, where sugar will be extracted from the beets to form the white, brown and liquid sugars that Americans consume, Munn said.
Once it's processed, Munn said there is no difference between sugar from sugar cane or sugar beets.
Just one acre of sugar beets from this area can create about 11,000 pounds of sugar, he said. That's from an avera