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At week’s end, there was hope that sun and drying conditions would allow for harvest of the final acres of the area sugar beet crop that had been frozen in an Oct. 26 temporary plunge in …
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At week’s end, there was hope that sun and drying conditions would allow for harvest of the final acres of the area sugar beet crop that had been frozen in an Oct. 26 temporary plunge in temperatures.
The freeze caught about 500 acres of sugar beets, or roughly 4% of the Lovell factory district’s planted acreage.
Slowly, that number has come down. On Thursday, Nov. 9, only about 1% of planted beets remained to be harvested, said Tod Stutzman, North End grower and a member of the Western Sugar Cooperative board of directors.
“The last two growers should complete the harvest in a few days,” said Stutzman. “The Lovell factory has not had any issues processing the frost-damaged beets.”
Though the variable weather has made the harvest challenging, “average sugar in the Lovell district is 18.46%, which is excellent,” Stutzman said.
Yields across the district can be classified as average, Stutzman added. “We’re looking forward to harvest completion and final hard numbers.”
– Dave Bonner
