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— Feature Articles --
It’s Our 50th Birthday! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Sugarbeet Grower’s first issue was May 1963
A Byproduct Success Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Report on Southern Minn spent lime research
‘Keep Watering’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . 10
Gary Mamer discusses Imperial Valley beet production
— Regular Pages --
Dateline: Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Farm bill and the sugar market
30 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Excerpts from the April 1983 issue
Write Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Dreaming at the Dome
Around the Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Who, what & where it’s happening
— Front Cover --
USDA’s initial forecast of 2013 planted sugarbeet
acreage pegged it down by 2% from last year.
  Photo: Don Lilleboe