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Re: [RC] Weed-free feed required on USFS lands - Lynn KinskyTitle: Re: [RC] Weed-free feed required on USFS landsJerry Fruth <hikryrdg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >Linda, >I've been thinking about this. Beet pulp is made of beets. >They are picked off the ground and then cut and cooked. >So there can't be a weed in the stuff. Yet another virtue of beet pulp, I guess. I suppose somebody might worry whether the beets themselves could still germinate, get loose, and smother the western United States in squishy purple tubers. It'd be great for the cattle grazing guys, though. Linda B. Merims Sugar beets, like garden beets or
radishes, or carrots, are a thickened root. The plants
themselves germinate from seeds produced by the above ground greens.
After they are thoroughly pulverized and processed to extract the
sugar (and they are picked without the greens -- I've seen rail cars
full of them heading to processing) there is nothing left that is
viable, let alone able to germinate! After all, the forest isn't
overgrown with carrots and heaven knows enough of them have been eaten
by horses out on the trail.
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