| As the 2000 campaign enters the final days of completion,
sugar beet officials are looking forward to the 2001 planting season. Kent
Wimmer, director of Agriculture for Western Sugar, said the Bayard factory
finished processing beets at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
Scottsbluff is projected to finish its campaign on Feb. 1. "There
are still some sugar beets in the Cedar Canyon, Holyoke and Sedgwick
receiving stations that are being hauled to the factory.
Wimmer said Ft. Morgan and Greeley should finish their campaigns on
Feb. 2, Billings, Mont., is projected to finish on Feb. 21 or 22 and
Lovell, Wyo. on Feb. 24 or 25.
Wimmer said the first 10 days in January were unseasonably warm and
caused some rimming in the sugar beet piles in the Scottsbluff area.
The exterior beets were deteriorating due to the warm weather causing
some coloring problems during processing.
Wimmer said contracting for the 2001 contract hasn't started although
they have a master contract in place.
"With the cooperative activities, we think its a little premature
to start contracting," Wimmer explained.
He added that as soon as the cooperative makes their deadlines,
contracting will begin in a timely fashion.
Recently, Western Sugar announced their top growers by receiving
station for 2000. They are as follows: North Mitchell TP/A # sugar/ A Mark
Spencer 33.6 9684 Bill Debus, Inc. 31.9 9505 Lebruska Bros, LLC 30.3 9077
South Mitchell TP/A # sugar/A DS Farms, Inc. 30.7 9703 DS Farms Inc.
31.6 9507 Doug & Jim Strauch 28.8 8896
Alliance TP/A # sugar/A Harvey Schnell 29.6 9792 Vern Vogel 26.3 7576
Richard Behm 23.9 7438
Ginn TP/A # sugar/A Roy Panwitz 28.1 9488 Jimmy Buskirk 25.6 8340 Mark
Buskirk 27.5 8198
Roach TP/A # sugar/A Terry Mehling 30.9 8447 Paul Hobson Jr. 27.9 8024
Thomas Family Farms 26.2 7541
Hartman TP/A # sugar/A Lyle Lillard 24.4 7435 John Dillman Jr. 20.3
6005 John Dillman Jr. 19.8 5225
Nida TP/A # sugar/A W&W Farms, Inc. 24.9 8780 Kirk Keder 25.9 8491
Haas Farms, Inc. 26.2 8386
Hemingford TP/A # sugar/A DK Buskirk & Sons 24.5 8206 Dana Sorenson
25.1 7805 Darby Jesperson 24.9 7558
Broadwater TP/A # sugar/A Nick Lapaseotes 30.4 9153 Connie Lapaseotes,
Ltd. 31.6 9075 Connie Lapaseotes, Ltd. 27.0 7472
Degraw TP/A # sugar/A G&C Farms, Inc. 18.6 4920 Brian Adams 18.5
4648 G&C Farms, Inc. 14.9 3920
Bridgeport TP/A # sugar/A Myron Lembke 20.7 6529 Nick Lapaseotes 20.1
5760 Connie Lapaseotes, Ltd. 15.5 4144
Dalton TP/A # sugar/A Circle Diamond Inc. 24.3 8006 Circle Diamond Inc.
25.1 7701 Dennis Peters 21.1 7347
Mirage Flats TP/A # sugar/A Allan Thorson 34.9 11264 T&S Unverzagt
Farms, Inc. 28.4 8958 Jesse Agler 26.1 8648
Pumpkin Creek TP/A # sugar/A Michael Reuter 30.2 9128 Michael Reuter
26.7 8022 Michael Reuter 25.9 8007
Scottsbluff Factory TP/A # sugar/A JD Farms 29.7 9128 LRK Farms 25.9
7889 LRK Farms 26.4 7786
Clouse TP/A # sugar/A Eleazar Garza 22.0 6645 Haun Brothers 23.1 6488
Haun Brothers 22.5 6163
Mintle TP/A # sugar/A Terry Carrier 30.3 8788 Four Lazy Y 30.0 8769
Richard Martin 26.6 7906
Cedar Canyon TP/A # sugar/A Randie Kiesel 31.8 9911 Buehler Farms 32.6
9574 R&R Kiesel Farms 29.5 9321
Torrington TP/A # sugar/A Terry Lofink 24.2 7501 RC & TT Farm 20.3
6131 Conrad Lofink 19.1 5686
Bayard TP/A # sugar/A Thomas Bauer 28.6 8391 Jason Sauer 29.4 8054 Tom
Henson 26.5 |