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The full sugar beet harvest in the Lovell Factory District starts (today) Tuesday, but with temperatures remaining warm, receiving stations may operate only half days for the rest of this week.
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The full sugar beet harvest in the Lovell Factory District starts (today) Tuesday, but with temperatures remaining warm, receiving stations may operate only half days for the rest of this week.
That was the word Monday after a Western Sugar Cooperative directors’ call, said Ric Rodriguez, Heart Mountain grower and beet board member.
“We will monitor beet temperatures until Friday, when it is supposed to start cooling down,” he said.
The early dig of 10-15% of the 2021 beet crop began Sept. 7. All receiving stations in the Lovell district will be open as the regular harvest commences.
Rodriguez said sugar beets experienced “excellent growth” in September, though he doesn’t see final yields reaching much higher than the 26-ton projection. Sugar content, on the other hand, continues to climb to levels between 17 and 18 percentile he said.
—By Dave Bonner
