02-11-2010, 08:14 PM
nachoman Wrote:I gather such trains and plants no longer exist now that most sugar is grown as cane rather than beets? Does anyone have an approximate date when beet trains were phased out?
After I asked, I did a little search for more about the industry as a whole, rather than just the rr-related part. Apparently, the Ontario crop was completely phased out in the late 1960's. None were grown for about 40 years, but now there are about 10,000 acres under cultivation again.
As doctorwayne points out, a lot of industrial sweetener starts as corn these days.
Andrew