The last sugar beet factory is to leave California, costing hundreds of jobs and devastating the local industry despite the fact that growing conditions in the Imperial Valley are ideal for the crop.
Local PBS affiliate KPBS reported last week:
[T]his spring, the owner of the Spreckels factory, Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative, announced plans to shut down the plant and consolidate their sugar operations to the Midwest.
Due to strict federal limits on who can make beet sugar in the United States, the Imperial Valley will be unable to process any more beets once the plant closes — effectively ending sugarbeet farming in the region.
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