Beet deliveries slow, sugar good yields may surprise

SCOTTSBLUFF, (NEBRASKA)

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Beet Deliveries

Slow, Sugar Good; Yields

May

Surprise

By CON MARSHALL Operators at the v a r i o u s j for sure, it appears that yields es, and you can quote tne on

(Star-Herald Staff Writer> du"11JS in the Scottsbluff area may s u r pa s s previou~ esti- that."

• The beet harvest in the North said the volume of deliveries is I mates. The sugar content 1s also Jerry Reed, fieldman at

Mit-Platte Valley has gotten off to about half of what is C'xricc cd I reported to be above expecta- chell, said some farmers are a slow start, although mo- when the harvest gets i:1to full tions. very pleased with the tonnage mentum has been picking up swinr. However, in Wyoming I Marks of from 17 to 18 tons they are getting. He noted that

the past two days, officials re- the deliveries are brisker than per acre have been frequently the sugar content seems to be port. bst year, it is reported. mentioned around dumps in the almost as high as last year.

The slow s,art is attributed to . . . Valley. I "The tonnage is nothing the ideal weather co'1di-ions Sugar compar,y offic,~Is sa,~ 1 Dan Hara of Mitchell said his fantastic," Reed said. "But it's which have encouraged growers I th ey e~r:ect the d hahn,es".d~~ hif

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beets are nveraging a little over I better than some of them ex-to leave the beets in the grou::id' full, stnd~ aroun t e mi e O 18 tons per acre. "It's better i pected."

. a bit longer in order to get max- nE':: wee.c than I figured," he said. I Bob Sanborn assistant man-imum growth. \"/hile i'. is too early to tell Mrs. Harry Kechter of Mina- a"'Cr for the 'Scottsbluff and

tare said, "Harry's _talking : G~ring districts, said he

be-about 20-ton beets. We wish our Jieves 16 per cent sugar content

sugar was better and the tare seems about average. He noted

is high, but they are better than I

that the marks have ranged

we thought they wou1_{d be. They}

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_{from J l and 12 per cent to 18 or} sure were sick last spring."

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so.

Another ~inatare farmer was J John Worrall agricultural

not as optimistic. He stated,

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marager for H~lly Sugar Co.,

don't think they'll meet expens-.· said the sugar content in Goshen

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C_'ounty is "considerably better

than last year." He said it

ap-pears that overalf the crop will match or perhaps even surpass last year's marks in tonnage, as

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well.

i "Nothing has happened to sup-1 press our optimism that this is

going to be a good crop here," Worrall stated.

A problem in some areas is

the amount of dirt that is

cling-ing to the beets after they have been dug. The feeling is that if the ground was either wetter or drier the problem would not persist.

lAR-HERALD FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13

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1967

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