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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets
  • Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:08:20 -0600

A 1/2 lb sugar beet isn't a bunch. It's a partial sugar beet. They are quite big. I'm not sure they work well as a food product. That's why garden beets were developed.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html




I sell them for $2.50 a bunch for 1/2 pound bunches and $3.50 a bunch
for 1LB+ bunches. generally sell all I can grow so yes there is a market
for fresh beets either with or without green.

Lucy Goodman
Boulder belt farm
Eaton, OH

Willie McKemie wrote:
I have a few sugar beets coming. Is there any market for them as human
food? If so, tell me about it; I've never tried them before. The tops
are quite attractive. Years ago on a road trip through Colorado or
Nebraska or somewhere, I noticed fields of it and thought that it was
mustard. "Where the heck can they sell that much mustard?", I said to
myself.

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