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An operational dernonstrati~ of the :.. A
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said. Inew purity testing station at the Gering .• "From the looks of the current crop \
factory site of Great Western Sugar . . w~ are expecting a good purity test this !
company was held Thursday afternoon . :: year,,. Redman remarked just prior to \
under the direction of Jim Teters, chief I the start of the demonstration. . .
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· chemist and quality control manager. ;-·· : ;;_ ·· ' · ·: . 1
for the Gering-Scottsbluff district. .. · . ~
_Those attending the demonstratiOD·d
were GW officials, agricaltarists,...J
memben of th., oosrd of me.:ton of! ·
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the Nebrasks, Non-Stock Beet Growe~ .
··association, farmers .. and other area-~
agri-busines1men. . ·• · .,.. '
· . The demonstration-included.·
automated washing and drying of
beets, runnil1g them through a "Brei-·
saw" which takes a section of sugarbeet an<i turns it
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a wet pulp, sending the "saw dust" appearing pulp into the lab where is it collected, processed and. tested for purity. ·'"-. ·· •·Teters explained the process in detail .
to those attending with one sampling
testing at 86.89% purity. - - .... ,
:"The entire testing
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0~ electronic. equipment, no figures. are written by
- hand, all are· stamped on· the growen
card electronically,' .. Teters said; "We ·
. · hope to process 240 samples · an·· bow · ·
and have tests at the· same speed
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sugar samples in the past,'' he added.'
Teters demonstrated how to figure·
purity, but explained that the actual
tabulation will be- done in th~ office
from information OD the grower card
and not in the lab. · ' ·
"This is · the only purity testing station in the Nebraska district," Don
Redman, Nebraska area ag manager,·
told those attending the demonstration.
Purity testing will .be only of
sugarbeets destined to be sliced at the
Scottsbluff and Gering factories with ,
approximately 50%:. of the loads j
sampled, Redman said. Tare and sugar
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will be determined as usual this·year as '
payment will be based the same as the ,
1975 contract, Redman continued. 1: . • _
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The testing. of the 1976 crop of purity,-~.
; .. is -strictly for infonnational study for ·
both the company and the growers to be i
used in • helping determine futurr.1
