Explore: Beets Grown

beetroots are grown on a very small scale for home consumption. Besides standard fruit and vegetable dishes, certain varieties of beets are sometimes

saccharifera. Its closest wild relative is the sea beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima). Sugar beets are grown in climates that are too cold for sugarcane.

using beet sour to flavor borscht, which also gave the soup its now-familiar red color. One of the earliest mentions of borscht with pickled beets comes

20th-century English farmer and author on agriculture, described mangel beets as one of the best fodders for dairying, as milk production is maximized

refining into pure sucrose. Sugar beet factories are located in temperate climates where the beet is grown, and process the beets directly into refined sugar

from garden beets in Germany in the late 18th century after the roots of beets were found to contain sugar in 1747. Cicla Group, spinach beet or chard (Syn

remaining 70% is extracted from domestically grown sugar beets and sugarcane. More than 1 million acres of sugar beets are cultivated annually in the United

process beets only as far as an intermediate stage (an unrefined 'raw' sugar or concentrated sugar solution) to be refined elsewhere. A few process beets and

1897 USDA farmers' bulletin on sugar beets had been distributed and "the demand appears to be unabated." Sugar beets were cultivated in Michigan north of

where immigrant farmers brought wagonloads of peas, cabbage, corn and beets grown on the logging cutover. In 1914 Big Four produced up to 100,000 cans