NWISRL PublicationsYield and Quality as Affected by Early and Late Fall and Spring Harvest of SugarbeetsJ.N.CarterauthorW.D.KemperauthorD.J.TravellerauthorSugarbeets (Beta vulgaris L.) in the intermountain areas of the western United States are normally planted in early spring and harvested during October with the advent of cool temperatures. The beet roots during this harvesting period are near their maximum yield and sucrose concentration. Temperatures are cool and suitable for storing excess roots in piles for later processing. The factory processing of beet roots is presently limited to the period between harvest and mid-February after which stored roots in piles deteriorate rapidly in quality with increased temperatures (2, 10, 16, 17). The closing of some sugar factories, and low prices currently received for other crops, has intensified demand by farm managers for increased acreage allotment for sugarbeets. Present low world sugar prices and the uncertainty of continued sugar legislation discourages the expansion of the cutting and processing facilities in factories. Methods and procedures are needed to increase the tonnage of beet roots that can be processed using existing equipment and facilities. The objective of this study was to evaluate methods and procedures where factories can increase the amount of beet roots processed with existing equipment by methods such as early and late fall and spring harvest of sugarbeets.SugarbeetMass Import - autoclassified (may be erroneous)1985Article

For work being deposited by its own author: In self-archiving this collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata, I grant NWISRL Publications the right to store them and to make them permanently available publicly for free on-line. I declare that this material is my own intellectual property and I understand that NWISRL Publications does not assume any responsibility if there is any breach of copyright in distributing these files or metadata. (All authors are urged to prominently assert their copyright on the title page of their work.)

For work being deposited by someone other than its author: I hereby declare that the collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata that I am archiving at NWISRL Publications) is in the public domain. If this is not the case, I accept full responsibility for any breach of copyright that distributing these files or metadata may entail.

Clicking on the deposit button indicates your agreement to these terms.