Category: Agriculture

The large, flat-topped piles outside Amalgamated Sugar factory locations are not dirt at all, but a material called Precipitated Calcium Carbonate, or PCC. PCC is

The sugarbeet plant is biennial, meaning it grows leaves and roots the first year, goes dormant for the winter, then flowers, and produces seeds the

Amalgamated Sugar uses silos and tanks to store two different materials—granulated sugar and “thick juice.”  Granulated white sugar is stored in the taller, narrower silos. 

Sugarbeet harvest for long-term sugarbeet storage usually begins in early October and lasts for four to five weeks. Harvested sugarbeets are transported from the field