Wet, muddy conditions have kept many Michigan farmers from harvesting their crops for the past several weeks but the sugarbeets have kept growing.
“Growers are seeing tons they haven’t quite honestly seen before.”
Adam Herford, board chair of the Michigan Sugar Company, tells Brownfield a record crop is expected with the potential for growers to harvest more than a million additional tons above average.
“I think as we got rains in September and early October, we just found out just how explosive a beet crop can be with rain and warm, above-average temperatures in the fall,” he explains.
