| Scottsbluff, Neb- The checks are in the mail for Western Sugar
beet growers in Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Montana. Payments have
been issued totaling $70 million for this years crop, company officials
said. That breaks down to about $30.22 per ton based on an average
sugar content of 16.15 percent.
The payments are the best seen by growers in a number of years, in part
because of increased prices for sugar, Western Sugar spokesman Kent Wimmer
said. |