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Frozen beets in northern Wyoming turned to feed
By: Associated Press, KULR8
1-22-2010
POWELL, WYOMING - Bighorn Basin sugar beets that never made it to the factory are turning into winter livestock fodder.
Local Western Sugar Cooperative beet growers are feeding both sheep and cattle on beets that remain in the ground in the Lovell factory district, where about 30 percent of the 2009 crop was not harvested.
Regan Smith is feeding both cattle and sheep on his sugar beets. He says they are doing well. Randy Violett of the University of Wyoming Research and Extension Center says livestock choking on beets could be a concern though.
