About a third of Frankenmuth area farmer Dean Haubenstricter’s beets are in the ground.

“Conditions were beautiful a few weeks ago for planting and that’s why we got started,” he says.  “The conditions were so nice we thought we had to do something.”

Haubenstricter tells Brownfield he’s taking his time planting this year after one of his worst planting seasons ever in 2020 when Michigan sugarbeet growers replanted 30,000 acres following a cold, wet spring. 

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