Re: [RC] Beet pulp shortage - Barbara McCrary

I thought the primary reason was for sugar, and the beet pulp industry was a follow-on. That's what I've read, anyhow.

Here is a link from a newpaper article -- It's from 1999, but some of the info should still be valid.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/03/31/FD91867.DTL


On Jan 30, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Barbara McCrary wrote:

If the sugar cane industry successfully convinces people that cane sugar is superior to beet sugar, as they are trying to do, then there may be more shortages of beet pulp. Is there any reason sugar beets are grown other than for sugar? Or are they grown just for beet pulp? I truly don't know. I always thought sugar was sugar, whether it was cane or beet. But advertising campaigns can do a lot of influencing. A thought to ponder, and if anyone knows the answer, I'm prepared to be educated.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Walker" <bwalker2@xxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: [RC] Beet pulp shortage

I'm in SoCal, and have had no problems this year. I asked my feed supplier, and she said she hadn't heard of any shortage. She said that, because there is only one crop per year (harvested in July, I think she said), they have to estimate how much they will need locally, so they can export the remainder. If they guess wrong, you get shortages.

So, it could be that your local crop got trashed for this year, and there won't be a harvest, which is why they said 2010.




On Jan 30, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Kristi Schaaf wrote:

Just curious if everyone nationwide is running out of beet pulp or just our area. Both my friend and I, who are in different parts of Iowa, were told by our feed suppliers that molasses-free beetpulp is nowhere to be found this year and regular beetpulp isn't far behind and will soon be completely unavailable until 2010. Anyone else running into this problem?

Kristi




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