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Bumper beet crop reported

2008-11-15 06:31:00
Author: BizWire

Sugar beet producers in southeastern Montana are reporting a bumper crop.

Members of the Western Sugar Cooperative on averAge pulled 27.4 tons of beets out of every acre planted and the beets had an estimated sugar content of 17 percent. Similar numbers were reported in the Lovell, Wyo., area.

Randall Jobman, the co-op's North Country Agricultural manager, says both areas are above average in tonnage and sugar.

Beet growers in the Sidney area and those in Wyoming growing for Wyoming Sugar Co. also reported record production. Cal Jones, CEO of Wyoming Sugar, says they had yields of 26 tons per acre and sugar content of 17.5 percent.

In far eastern Montana, officials with the Montana-Dakota Beet Growers Association say farmers harvested 24.6 tons per acre with an 18.1 percent sugar content.

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