SFGate:
This summer’s sugar beet harvest could be the last one California ever sees. In April, Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative, the owner of the Spreckels Sugar Company factory in the Imperial Valley, announced plans to close the 78-year-old facility. The news comes as a devastating blow to the Southern California region, as it will mean the loss of more than 700 local jobs, reported KPBS-TV.
Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative is moving all of its sugar operations to its Minnesota factory. The company explained in a news release that the Brawley facility in the Imperial Valley was no longer financially viable. more. h/t Mrs.6Pak.
Spreckels is losing shekels!
(Notice how how I reduce everything to its bear essentials.)
No one is going to convince me beets make sugar.
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@MJA — I imagine beets make sugar the same way dirt makes beets. 🙄
It’s a shame about that big an employer shutting down. I’ve got to believe that a big part of “no longer financially viable” is the cost of govt regulation, taxation, and water restrictions.
Allow me to translate this situation;
Since Trump is destroying our cheap illegal labor force we are compelled to break camp and flee to Minnesota where we can be covered by the Muslim Minnesota Brigade. This implies Speckles is aware Newsome will likely be in prison in the next two years and thus their political Patron is at risk.
At the rate large businesses are fleeing Californicate, the only jobs left for the ILLEGALS will be hotel and hospitality because Newscum will also have driven the Farmers out as well due to their use of Fossil Fuels to run their business.
At first I thought it was Gavinomics in action. I read the article and it appears the Feds are still restricting who can process beets for sugar.
♫ And the beets go on… ♪
I used to make sugar, using sugar beets. Pioneer Sugar, if I remember correctly, as it was when Carter won the election. It was a stinky, dirty process and the only time I had to join a union. Glad I made some money, but never again!
Nothing beats sugar made from sugar cane.
Southern Pacific RR ran trainloads of sugar beets weighing 11000 tons from the Imperial Valley to central Calif. I used to pace my motorcycle along the trains and beets would fall off the cars. We picked some up to make sugar but it didn’t work.