The Michigan Sugar Company has started one of its earliest harvest of sugarbeets.

Executive Vice President Jim Ruhlman tells Brownfield from replanting, extreme flooding, and extreme heat, it’s surprising how healthy the crop has been.

“We had fields that had six inches of water on them and today are yielding 22-ton beets so its pretty remarkable what has gone on.”

This year, growers replanted 30,000 acres of beets, almost 20 percent of expected production, after freeze events in April and Ruhlman says crops pulled through summer heat with nearly 15 days above 90 degrees with no rain.

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