Southern Alberta’s sugarbeet harvest is complete, comprising more than 820,000 tonnes of beets and an average yield of 28.67 tonnes per acre.
Processing of all those beets continues at the Roger’s Sugar factory in Taber, Alta., and trucking beets from the outlying piling stations is under way, said Alberta Sugar Beet Growers executive director Melody Garner-Skiba.
She estimated Nov. 24 that Alberta farmers produced enough beets to yield 138,869 tonnes of sugar, which would be enough to sweeten 3.5 million cans of pop or make 15.4 billion sugar cookies.
President Arnie Bergen-Henengouwen said in a news release that harvest went well despite delays created by an October snowfall.
Source: www.producer.com