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economics. Besides, the
closest processing plants
right now arc in western
Ohio and Michigan. It would
cost a lot to ship beets that
far.”
Eakm lo not even keen on
people growing sugar beets
in their gardens. ‘‘Beets arc
only about 15-percent
sugar," he said, "Raw beets
don’t even have a sweet
taste, and they’re not fit for
human consumption. The
extraction process is very
complicated, that’s why it
takes an expensive
processing plant. I’ve heard
from some people who want
to know if they can make
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beet sugar the same way
they make maple sugar, but
there's no remote similarity
between the two processes.
"All you have to do with
maple syrup is boil it long
enough. Beets need grinding,
crushing, heat, pressure,
chemicals - it's very com
plicated. You Just can’t
make your own sugar from
back yard beets.”
Eakln’s pessimistic
comments were echoed in a
letter from Gerald Coe, a
research geneticist with the
USDA’s field crops
laboratory in Beltsville, Md.
' One-by-one, Coe ticked off
the points against sugar
beets, with a single tick
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in their favor. He, too, pic
tured an outlook that is
heavily against beet
production here. Coe said:
1. It takes a $40,000,000
factory to extract the sugar
from sugnrbccts.
2. It takes about 3 years to
build one of these factories.
3. Until 1974, the return on
the capital investment in a
sugar-beet factory was
extremely small. I would
guess less than 5 percent in
most years, and in some
years no profit at all. For
this reason, the only fac
tories built in the U.S. in
recent years have been in
North Dakota by Farmer’s
Co-ops, where the profit is in
growing large sugarbeet
acreages and not in factory
operation. Knowledgeable
people realize that by the
time a sugarbeet factory is
built the price of sugar may
be back down to 11- or 12-
cents a pound. Therefore, it
is nearly impossible to at
tract outside capital into a
sugarbeet factory.
4. A sugarbeet factory
operates about 90 to 120 days
a year. This is the maximum
length of time beets can be
stored after harvesting.
Deterioration in root storage
piles makes it unfeasible to
process for a longer period.
Sugarbeet factories contract
acreage to growers in order
to assure an adequate supply
and to prevent an over-
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supply. Therefore, the
sugarbccta are grown rather
close to the factory. Hauling
costs make it uneconomical
to grow beets very for from
the factory.
5. Permanent factory
employees spend most of the
year repairing factory
equipment getting ready for
the next campaign < harvest
season). Trained personnel
to operate and repair a
factory are scarce, and they
do not like moving to a
factory in a new area
because the chances of the
operation being a success
are rather small.
6. Several years of ex
perimental trials in a new
area are essential to be sure
sugarbeets can be grown
successfully.
7. Even when sugarbeets
can be grown successfully, a
thorough economic
feasibility study is essential
to be certain farmers will
grow sugarbeets year after
year. Farmer ownership of
the factory is one means of
insuring a supply of beets,
but even this will not work if
competing crops are too
attractive.
Unlike com or wheat, an
unusually large number of
factors have to be ideal
before the growing of
sugarbeets is practical even
in areas where sugarbeets
can be grown. We have had
many inquiries from people
who, under present market
conditions, think they would
like to get into the sugarbeet
business. I can only
recommend that they
-proceed with extreme
caution, get all the facts, call
m experts from sugarbeet
growing areas, and then get
into the business when there
seems to be no other alter
native. Actually, this is a
pessimistic point of view, but
not too far from a realistic
outlook.”
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