Josh's mom took us on a tour of the sugar factory this evening where she has worked for many years. We started off by gearing up with hairnets, earplugs, safety glasses and hardhats.
This is where the sugar ends up and the last place we visited on our tour. We looked out the window at the top of the tower on the left. Cool view of the "city" of Lovell from up there! When all four towers are full, they contain enough sugar to make 500,000,000 Snickers bars. They fill them up over 3 times a sugar season!
Our tour guide entering the plant which was built in 1916. They process sugar beets about half the year. The sugar beets are being harvested right now so you have to watch out for slow beet trucks on the road. There are huge piles of sugar beets waiting to be processed from over 1800 acres of farmland.
I'd never been in a factory like this before and it was very eye opening.
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