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Post by lakeportfarms on Nov 10, 2012 9:23:06 GMT -5
Our area is a huge sugar beet producer, and we have a plant about 10 miles from us. Starting September, it is a constant train of semis in and out of the plant until around March. From what I understand this was an excellent or maybe record year for beets in our area, despite our stretch of drought for a couple of months. I would think that it may hold prices rather steady. I'll have to ask a few farmer friends about the GMO part of it, but from my anecdotal experience when I'm out passing by the fields, I see very little done in the beet fields with respect to spraying pesticides or fertilizers compared to other crops like wheat and corn. Maybe it just doesn't seem so obvious like it does with wheat though.
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Post by copperhead on Nov 10, 2012 23:01:21 GMT -5
I started feeding it last year to an old horse that I was trying to get some weight on, I also started feeding it to Jade, hoping to keep her sugar levels up through her pregnancy. In each instance, the animal has jumped right in on the feed, they all love it. I haven't fed it dry because I'm kind of worried about it being dry and maybe causing choking. It cost me 18 dollars for 50 lbs, but it triples in size and is very cost efficient. It put the weight on and they really love it. I mix it with the calf creep that they've alway had , usually I put the beets in the bottom of the bucket, put some water in, let it soak for maybe 5 minutes, put the calf creep on top and dump it into the trough, never had an animal turn away from it and have never noticed any kind of digestive problems.
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