How Sugar Is Made From Sugar Beets | Sugar Beet Harvesting & Processing | Sugar Factory

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  • Опубліковано 8 лис 2022
  • How is sugar extracted from sugar beet? In this video, I will show you the process of harvesting and making sugar from sugar beets. It is one of a short video in a series of short, concise videos that reveal the mysteries behind how everyday things happen.
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    0:16 Sugar Beet Harvest
    2:51 Sugar Factory
    7:33 Packaging Process
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  • @jhwheuer
    @jhwheuer Рік тому +13

    When you see the piles on the fields, you know winter is coming

    • @IdahoPohTaToh
      @IdahoPohTaToh Рік тому +1

      Potatoes and Sugar Beets are pretty much the last thing harvested here.Some Apples still too.

  • @lukeknowles5700
    @lukeknowles5700 Рік тому +64

    Annoying background music. I would rather listen to a narrator than to bad music.

    • @eprofessio
      @eprofessio Рік тому +4

      I like the music.

    • @jenniehughes6927
      @jenniehughes6927 Рік тому +1

      @@eprofessio I had to mute it.

    • @eprofessio
      @eprofessio Рік тому +3

      @@jenniehughes6927 :) I found it kind of soothing. I’m a weirdo.

    • @wstavis3135
      @wstavis3135 Рік тому +2

      Gosh, if only there were a button that do something about it.......

    • @lukeknowles5700
      @lukeknowles5700 Рік тому

      @@wstavis3135 There's a button on your mama.

  • @cmennare
    @cmennare Рік тому +24

    Here in Michigan, the Pioneer sugar plant is surrounded by all of the beet farms, so there is a short truck ride and no train ride for the beets.

    • @solarmax9299
      @solarmax9299 Рік тому +6

      I live 4 miles from a major plant here in the Michigan Thumb and Sugar Beets are a big deal. The piles in the fall at the staging areas are truly enormous. The smell is a bit unpleasant, but it is the smell of money for the region.

    • @markleggett9714
      @markleggett9714 Рік тому +2

      Are those farms able to keep the plant supplied with enough beets for year round sugar production?

    • @cmennare
      @cmennare Рік тому +3

      @@markleggett9714 it's seasonal

    • @mattjones5987
      @mattjones5987 Рік тому +4

      Indeed, parts of this video showed Europe, not Michigan.

    • @hamoostaffat
      @hamoostaffat Рік тому +3

      Same where I live, silver spoon factory a few miles away and the fields around for miles are the main beet areas, it's great because we have some bad roads and sometimes you get some spillage on the usual corners so you get some free beets, not a massive amount but enough for baking some pies to store for winter, is there anything better than a hot fruit pie in winter that you foraged for? I don't think so..... yummy ✌️😋🤘

  • @fredolivo6462
    @fredolivo6462 Рік тому +14

    What a sweet job.

    • @id10t98
      @id10t98 Рік тому +2

      Some careers just crystallize.

  • @briandufresne
    @briandufresne Рік тому +21

    Great video work. 😊 Subtitles should be proofread. 😮 Music is icky. 😢

  • @IdahoPohTaToh
    @IdahoPohTaToh Рік тому +10

    While Idaho is Famous for Potatoes 🥔 It is also Number Two in producing Sugar Beets in America at 6,845,000 tons.

  • @sarah_farm
    @sarah_farm 5 місяців тому

    Just realise how long i have been followed you. Watching Ahao grow up, Dawang be fatten up and your baking skill level up over years has been one of my great joys.

  • @ioanagherman5952
    @ioanagherman5952 Рік тому +2

    We use to pull those sugar beets by hand and clean the leafs by hand, not hard work but when the winter came early our hands was frozen.

  • @ritardedLolbot
    @ritardedLolbot Рік тому +3

    Really appreciate adding context to the vid

  • @A50S2D
    @A50S2D Рік тому +3

    More sophisticated but basically the same method when I worked in a factory producing White Satin sugar in 1970.

    • @geedee2420
      @geedee2420 Рік тому

      I worked at the Speckles factory (aka: Holly Sugar) in the 90's.

  • @Risa-dc5pe
    @Risa-dc5pe 10 місяців тому +1

    Such a great video. Thanks for sharing.

  • @branned
    @branned Рік тому +1

    Excellent video.👍👍

  • @stanleyjones6705
    @stanleyjones6705 Рік тому +5

    they didn't say anything about the rest of the byproducts of sugar production. the pulp is also fed to cattle as a food additive. the molasses is used in baking , as an additive in cattle feed and desulphred for human consumption.

    • @mattjones5987
      @mattjones5987 Рік тому

      Also not mentioned is the bleaching that makes it go from dark tan to that white crystal color. Yes, we are eating bleach

  • @aldosigmann419
    @aldosigmann419 Рік тому +8

    The sheer magnitude is very impressive...

    • @prjndigo
      @prjndigo Рік тому

      they stole someone else's video that showed a LOT more

    • @AgritechFutureUS
      @AgritechFutureUS 9 місяців тому +1

      Absolutely awe-inspiring!

  • @timothyshepodd7826
    @timothyshepodd7826 Рік тому +3

    We seemed to switch countries mid video. Blessings!

  • @steves7271
    @steves7271 Рік тому +3

    OR... you could use honey. Bee to spoon in a few easy steps. No huge amounts of water waste, pollution and expense, just beautiful, diverse, low maintenance meadows that produce a product that is full of natural vitamins, minerals and sugars. The sugar industry is consumer driven, so why not try switching out some of your sugars for honey? It's great in teas and coffees, cakes, cereals and just about anywhere you would use sugar.

    • @beebob1279
      @beebob1279 Рік тому +2

      We don't produce enough honey. this is why we have sugar, HFCS, etc.

    • @TimeSurfer206
      @TimeSurfer206 Рік тому

      @@beebob1279 Was about to pop in to say, "If we did that, we'd all need to be apiarists."

    • @juhajuntunen7866
      @juhajuntunen7866 6 місяців тому

      My father had some bee hives 20 years ago. Lot of work and variation between years were huge.

  • @scottsatterthwaite4073
    @scottsatterthwaite4073 Рік тому +6

    Sugar Cane accounts for 60% of sugar production while Beets account for only 30% of sugar production world-wide. The remainder is from other sources such a Palm. Bagged sugar in North American grocery stores is usually marked as "Pure Cane Sugar". If it isn't so marked, it may contain either or a mixture of cane and beet varieties. In any case, the sugar produced is identical and both cane and beet processing is identical.

    • @danor6812
      @danor6812 Рік тому +1

      Your thinking consumer sugars. Most companies that use sugar, such as candy companies. Use Beet sugar because it's cheaper. Same with corn syrup. That's where the other 20+% comes in.

    • @scottsatterthwaite4073
      @scottsatterthwaite4073 Рік тому +1

      @@danor6812 There is virtually no cost difference. If beet sugar was cheaper, we would see much more of it on the consumer side as well. The fact is that commercial use of beet sugar accounts for 90% of all beet sugar consumption, but is still only 30% of the overall sugar consumption. The candy industry uses HFCS almost exclusively (as does the soft drink industry). The film was a propaganda piece produced by a beet growers association.

    • @AgritechFutureUS
      @AgritechFutureUS 9 місяців тому

      Good to know, thanks!

  • @ageandersgilde2223
    @ageandersgilde2223 Рік тому +8

    As far as i know, the sugar beets only get transported by train to a factory if it is over a longer distance, but one thing is for sure, it is not taken off the train next to the sugar plant, then loaded on to a truck or tractor just to be driven next door to get dumped out again🥴 the train most likely dumped straight in to the designated storage for the factory/plant

    • @rjmun580
      @rjmun580 Рік тому +5

      The first part is in a German speaking country then it moves to America. Clearly a compilation.

    • @halrichard1969
      @halrichard1969 Рік тому +3

      When the LA Times was still printing,, we had railroad cars drop car sized rolls of paper directly into the warehouse then stored around with Tank Sized Fork Lifts.

  • @AgritechFutureUS
    @AgritechFutureUS 9 місяців тому +1

    *I noticed the same. It does seem like there could be more streamlined processes to reduce handling.*

  • @kwamepalavin8405
    @kwamepalavin8405 Рік тому +1

    Without cheap natural gas from Russia even beet sugar making as well as toilet and other paper making cannot be possible.

  • @valuedhumanoid6574
    @valuedhumanoid6574 Рік тому +19

    I counted 7 times the beets are handled before they get inside the factory. 7. That seems like a lot of unneeded logistics. A few steps could be eliminated I would imagine. Perhaps that's just the way it is. I am sure they have it worked out. Just from a layman's view it seems like too much handling from the field to the factory.

    • @danjackson2987
      @danjackson2987 Рік тому +2

      I’m pretty sure the farmers have it sorted out. They have the hardest job, get paid the least and have tons of advice from city slickers…..

    • @valuedhumanoid6574
      @valuedhumanoid6574 Рік тому +3

      @@danjackson2987 I agree, that is why I said they got it sorted out. But that's not to say there's not room for tweaking in ANY process. I was just thinking out loud brother.

    • @scottgigot2593
      @scottgigot2593 Рік тому +5

      Someone went through 6-sigma training! Each step also includes some washing so it's not a complete waste of effort. A lot of the multiple-handling allows assembling a stockpile of beets so they don't have to process the whole crop at one time. Also, the machinery to scalp, then dig, then pile, then bulk transport (etc) allows for less complicated, less expensive equipment at each step. There would be less Movement if each farm had its own sugar refinery, but the cost would go up and the overall efficiency would plummet. I work in the forest products industry and you see many of the same things (someone cuts and stacks logs, someone else hauls logs, possibly to a transload station where they're shipped again to a factory which maintains its own inventories) - and you *can* harvest wood 365 days a year, as opposed to one crop per year.

    • @valuedhumanoid6574
      @valuedhumanoid6574 Рік тому

      @@scottgigot2593 I am a green belt. Thanks for noticing!

    • @theresasergent8700
      @theresasergent8700 Рік тому +1

      I can't speak for European handling but the first part is removing tops this is done via a separate unit with pull type equipment but it's with the harvester on self propelled units carts are used to reduce compaction and to keep the harvester moving. The pile on the end of the field is used to help clean the beets because of all the moving in the maus/Tara felis. Then it is transported to the factory and piled in piles for storage until the factory can process them. The maus/ Tara felis is optional but this makes for cleaner beets and can be dumped directly into the factory

  • @armimtayeah
    @armimtayeah 7 місяців тому +1

    ❤arsamim,tayeah❤

  • @FrederickVanrijn
    @FrederickVanrijn Місяць тому

    How appetizing are the beets themselves prepared traditionally like red beets?

  • @sldineshbro
    @sldineshbro Рік тому

    Good morning 🌹🌹

  • @johnlong4987
    @johnlong4987 Рік тому +1

    This video was so "sweet".

  • @kutunuikunikuni1301
    @kutunuikunikuni1301 Рік тому

    That bloody insane music....

  • @2choosewisely2
    @2choosewisely2 Рік тому +1

    see? sugar is a vegetable. so when your parents tell you to eat your vegetables you can happily eat your candy for dinner

  • @frankroy9423
    @frankroy9423 Рік тому +1

    And some of the Beet pulp is used in the growing process of Mushrooms.

  • @kirkthiets2771
    @kirkthiets2771 Рік тому

    Shredded and then distilled and purified.

  • @asadbekabdurazzoqov6284
    @asadbekabdurazzoqov6284 Рік тому +1

    Assalomu alaykum
    Shu zavodning minisini bormi? Men sotib olmoqchiman.

  • @azafi7554
    @azafi7554 Рік тому

    one day you also become beet and keep taking samples after every meal (avoid sweet)
    thanks for video

  • @SANDGLASSUS
    @SANDGLASSUS 27 днів тому

    Radish can make many healthy dishes

  • @jeffrydemeyer5433
    @jeffrydemeyer5433 Рік тому +1

    how are other chemicals removed? beet taste like ...beet...

  • @jerrykinnin7941
    @jerrykinnin7941 Рік тому +2

    Most of the sugar beets I know of are used to make de icer for winter roads.
    Supposed to replace liquid salt.

  • @77trashman
    @77trashman Рік тому

    I learned about this when I was a kid from sesame street.

    • @rjmun580
      @rjmun580 Рік тому

      You're a kid from Sesame Street?

  • @asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791
    @asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 Рік тому +2

    How come some sugar is white and others shades of brown?

    • @discipleoferis549
      @discipleoferis549 Рік тому +3

      Depends primarily on the molasses content, a natural component of cane and beet sugar. The molasses of each differs noticeably in flavor, so most brown sugar or other things that use molasses use sugarcane molasses. The process of creating white sugar refines the molasses out of the sugar, which affects the flavor (and increases the purity of the sugar).

  • @CoilyKoil
    @CoilyKoil Рік тому

    So cool!

  • @csnide6702
    @csnide6702 Рік тому

    We need to be using these to convert to fuel..... Like Brazil does with Cane.

  • @lylestavast7652
    @lylestavast7652 Рік тому +1

    what is the actual process to de-water the slurry ? is it cooked out, or do they do something like low pressure evaporation type stuff ?

    • @jdgrupp
      @jdgrupp Рік тому +3

      Heat evaporates it.

    • @Mayangone
      @Mayangone Рік тому +3

      When I worked in a sugar cane -sugar mill, we concentrated sugar solution with multi-stage evaporators.

  • @chandrasekaranm513
    @chandrasekaranm513 2 місяці тому

    How it is form as a white

  • @jayadama1301
    @jayadama1301 Рік тому +1

    The sugar is made of beets?

  • @philippesails4973
    @philippesails4973 Рік тому +1

    Most underrated poison! Way more addictive than anything else, even hard drugs!
    And this video shows industrial food at its worse, with all destructive effects on humans and earth being silenced.

  • @user-kz3yc2xd3u
    @user-kz3yc2xd3u Рік тому +1

    Process is not full. How about refineing?

  • @fredtjack23
    @fredtjack23 Рік тому +1

    You know you can control the volume right

  • @ret7army
    @ret7army Рік тому +2

    So glad youtube can't include the smell...lived near (5 miles) a sugar beet plant growing up. The smell is possibly worse than a sewer

    • @MrDanisve
      @MrDanisve Рік тому +5

      "Beats" living near a paper factory :P Constant smell of farts

    • @solarmax9299
      @solarmax9299 Рік тому +1

      The smell of money to the community.

    • @malissahyatt2425
      @malissahyatt2425 Рік тому

      How does it compare to rotting turnips???
      Those thing stink worse than my cats litter box.
      😵

    • @TimeSurfer206
      @TimeSurfer206 Рік тому

      "Silage:" Chopped Alfalfa, fermented for cattle feed.
      Grew up in Dairy Country.
      The smells that make most City Folk gag make me homesick.
      Pulp Mills are an exception.

    • @solarmax9299
      @solarmax9299 Рік тому +1

      @@TimeSurfer206 I recall cow manure. Can't say it was OK but you get used to it. Ya, pulp mills... nope

  • @tayyabafridi517
    @tayyabafridi517 Рік тому

    What's the name of this factory

  • @ravenanalytics8188
    @ravenanalytics8188 Рік тому

    Better than the ketchup video

  • @DoubleDoubleWithOnions
    @DoubleDoubleWithOnions Рік тому +3

    Wow, you can't beet that.

  • @fantasyworld6936
    @fantasyworld6936 Рік тому

    it's in which country ?

  • @ronnieg6358
    @ronnieg6358 Рік тому

    'Sugar beet' is plural. There's no need for the 's'

  • @devendra1956
    @devendra1956 Рік тому

    In which country it's produced ?

  • @halrichard1969
    @halrichard1969 Рік тому

    Whoa!! I thought sugar was mined in Sugar mines with a pickaxe then ground up in a Sugar Mill.

  • @futseb
    @futseb Рік тому +1

    So, next step, where is the rum ? Oh yeah sorry, it's from cane sugar a not beets sugar

    • @bradjohnson9671
      @bradjohnson9671 Рік тому

      I was wondering what they did with the molasses to.

  • @Kiyoone
    @Kiyoone Рік тому +2

    mute and watch, thanks me later

  • @carllind949
    @carllind949 Рік тому

    5:43 Is that 70F or 160?
    6:45 Are the molasses discarded?

    • @AIM54A
      @AIM54A Рік тому +2

      Molasses is sold as it's own product. Its used in all sorts of products including animal feed.

    • @carllind949
      @carllind949 Рік тому

      @@AIM54A Is it palatable enough to make rum from?

    • @stanleyjones6705
      @stanleyjones6705 Рік тому

      rum is fermented molasses.

    • @rjmun580
      @rjmun580 Рік тому +1

      Fahrenheit is still used in America but most of the world now uses degrees C. 70F is only room temperature so wouldn't involve much heating. I would guess that nothing is discarded - the soil which is washed off the beet can be recovered.

    • @TimeSurfer206
      @TimeSurfer206 Рік тому

      @@stanleyjones6705 Rum is a myth. It's always gone.

  • @generalb4005
    @generalb4005 Рік тому

    Of course they edited out the portion of the video where they spray the beet crops with pesticides✍️✍️✍️

  • @rickthelian2215
    @rickthelian2215 Рік тому +2

    In the United States you use corn starch as it’s cheaper to sweeten soft drinks, in Australia we use sugar which taste better

    • @jamstagerable
      @jamstagerable Рік тому +1

      That is incorrect. The sugar that is in food products in the States also comes mainly from sugar beets when the ingredients states "sugar". Corn starch is an addictive used in certain Food products as a thickening agent, not as a replacement for sugar.
      The U.S. is the 3rd largest sugar beet producer behind France and Russia.

    • @rickthelian2215
      @rickthelian2215 Рік тому +1

      @@jamstagerable thank you for correcting me😀

    • @jamstagerable
      @jamstagerable Рік тому +1

      @@rickthelian2215 You're welcome..I had to look that up btw. 😂

    • @jamstagerable
      @jamstagerable Рік тому +1

      @@rickthelian2215 Learn something new every day! ✌🏾

    • @surlyogre1476
      @surlyogre1476 Рік тому +2

      Corn starch is tasteless, useless for sweetening anything.
      Perhaps you meant High Fructose Corn Syrup? Yeah, we use a lot of that good ol' HFCS.
      Also, for Rugged Individualism... _additive_ , not *addictive* . I think your spell checker may have thrown you a curve there.

  • @David-nk3kq
    @David-nk3kq Рік тому

    Where’s the step showing the raw sugar being bleached to make it white?

    • @theresasergent8700
      @theresasergent8700 Рік тому +3

      Doesn't happen, the molasses is pulled out of the sugar via a centrifugal spinner. P.s. sugar is naturally white the molasses is what makes it brown.

  • @MikeAG333
    @MikeAG333 Рік тому

    The plural of beet is beet, NOT beets.

  • @pennyturner8293
    @pennyturner8293 Рік тому +1

    Yes terrible music I turned sound off

  • @mickleblade
    @mickleblade Рік тому

    Great manufacturering, shame it's all for something bad for us

  • @BlackJesus8463
    @BlackJesus8463 Рік тому

    That looks expensive!

  • @karlschwarz1536
    @karlschwarz1536 Рік тому +1

    Good video but horrible music!

  • @cheskydivision
    @cheskydivision Рік тому +1

    Those factories smell pretty bad.

  • @jonnybabes1
    @jonnybabes1 Рік тому +1

    A mish mash of different videos cobbled together to make a disjointed and poor whole. How the beets are transported from Aarburg, Switzerland to end up as refined sugar in Boise, Idaho should be explained.

    • @rjmun580
      @rjmun580 Рік тому

      It's a compilation. The Swiss beet is processed locally and that in Idaho is grown locally.

  • @davidh4514
    @davidh4514 Рік тому

    Dreadful subtitles and terrible music.

  • @williampcoxjr198
    @williampcoxjr198 Рік тому +3

    You should hire someone with a working knowledge of English grammar to write your scripts.

  • @andyjohnson3790
    @andyjohnson3790 Рік тому +1

    So they harvest the beats, then just dump them in a field for another special probably $400k machine to pick them up and put them in a transport truck.
    What an absolutely stupid and pathetic waste of time and money vs just dumping them right in a truck first.

    • @lylestavast7652
      @lylestavast7652 Рік тому +1

      you have to time the delivery to the processing facility so it's not overrun with volume. the 2 steps you mention might be a long time apart.

    • @andyjohnson3790
      @andyjohnson3790 Рік тому +1

      @@lylestavast7652 yeah that does make sense.
      I'm just wondering how many semi trailers that don't need much maintenance can be purchased for the price of that one large scooper and conveyor machine with so many working parts. That thing has to be Expensive

  • @mollysurey6058
    @mollysurey6058 Рік тому

    very shallow and poorly done.

  • @Wendy-yg8yu
    @Wendy-yg8yu Рік тому +2

    They don’t tell you almost all sugar beets are GMO. Treated by Monsanto.

    • @markpalmer2451
      @markpalmer2451 Рік тому

      Thank God you're here in the comments to let us know

    • @beebob1279
      @beebob1279 Рік тому +1

      I've been waiting for someone to mention their lack of knowledge about GMO and sugar.
      The bee industry uses HFCS and also plain cane or beet sugars for feed. I keep away from HFCS because of it's true scientifically proven affects on honeybees.
      However, when you take GMO's for sugar whether form beets or cane you are incorrect. The sugar aspect of the plant is not affected by the GMO used in the plant. That's a fact. The sugar is just sugar and nothing else.

    • @beebob1279
      @beebob1279 Рік тому

      @@markpalmer2451 Wendy is incorrect. The GMO of sugar plants doesn't have any affect on the sugar that's produced.

    • @Wendy-yg8yu
      @Wendy-yg8yu Рік тому

      Bee Bob Sugar beets are “glyphosate tolerant”. In other words Round Up Ready Crop. They are labeled GMO. They have been altered to allow a farmer to spray without killing the plant. I don’t care what the end result for the sugar is. I do not want to eat a product, glyphosate, that has been proven to cause cancer. Nor would I eat your honey as you do not seem to care what is fed to your bees if you are feeding them sugar from sugar beet. Sugar from sugar beet cannot be labelled organic. We need to be very careful of what we are putting in our bodies and stick with what Mother Nature intended us to eat.

    • @beebob1279
      @beebob1279 Рік тому +1

      @@Wendy-yg8yu Fortunately, the sugar aspect of sugar is not GMO.

  • @lylenesvold6700
    @lylenesvold6700 Рік тому

    This is not how harvest goes in the US. And yes the music is very bad.

  • @acrobaticcripple8176
    @acrobaticcripple8176 Рік тому

    This is all crap in the beginning. Stopped watching.

  • @crash6674
    @crash6674 Рік тому

    seems very inefficient loading/unloading them so many times

  • @lineinthesand663
    @lineinthesand663 Рік тому +1

    How are the Europeons going to do this without Russian gas?

    • @TimeSurfer206
      @TimeSurfer206 Рік тому

      By figuring something out.
      Like, getting rid of Blyatimir Putain, and hoping an Adult HUMAN BEING takes the job.
      Mind, Life seems to be doing it's thing on Blyatimir just fine.