Record production for Western Sugar

Photo/ Bud Patterson - The new thick juice storage tanks at Torrington’s Western Sugar Cooperative sugar plant are near completion and should go on-line at the end of January.

TORRINGTON – Records in tonnage and sugar content were set with this year’s beet harvest, now being processed by the Western Sugar Cooperative sugar factory in south Torrington.

In October, the Telegram reported that Western Sugar agricultural Manager Jerry Darnell projected a 31-ton-per-acre beet harvest with 19 percent sugar content.

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