date:Nov 22, 2012
to said about this year's sugar-beet harvest compared with the one in 2010. He added that this year's sugar contents were average.
The entire cooperative, which includes farmers in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska, reported a record harvest of 29.8 tons per acre containing 17.48 percent sugar. This year's crop outperformed that of 2010, when tons per acre averaged 26.97 with 17.29 percent sugar.
Northern Colorado sugar-beet farmers had plenty of heat this year to grow the bumper crop.