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Originally Posted by DonDuck
There used to be a huge sugar beet mill near Hereford, Texas. They would pile those things sky high in harvest season and then take a few months extracting the liquid from the beets and processing the liquid into white granulated sugar. The beet pulp went to the cattle feed lots and was then fed to the cattle. It never entered my mind that they could be eaten by humans. Most of the sugar beets I saw were huge in excess of ten lbs. each
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There was a plant in my town,Longmont,CO,too. I remover those piles in the fall as big as huge warehouses out by the railroad tracks.