Sugarbeet Feature Stories

     Duane Grant is Snake River Sugar Company’s second chairman, succeeding Terry Ketterling of Mountain Home, Idaho, who served in that capacity from 1996 (the year SRSC was established) until 2009.  Grant joined the SRSC board in 2003, so he had an inside familiarity with the cooperative’s workings prior to taking over the chairmanship.  Still, he admits to seeing some things in a new light since becoming chairman.

     Were there an “Association of No-Till Sugarbeet Producers,” the group probably could hold its annual meeting inside a single beet cart.  Reduced-tillage beet growers?  Of course, there’s a lot of that these days.  Strip-till beets?  Certainly.  But bona fide no-till?  That’s still a rarity, to be sure.