About 1,000 workers will be needed to help with harvesting. An additional 100 will be needed as the project progresses. The market for sugar made from beets is fairly strong. About 55 percent of sugar consumed in the United States is from beets, Price said. But Columbia River Sugar Co. officials swear that isn't so.
Sugar is sugar.
You can make sugar from carrots. However, it would take a lot of carrots to make a little sugar. Price compared the process with making candy. The beets are sliced like thin french fries. Water enters the other end of the diffuser and the flow causes the sugar beet juice to separate from the pulp.