Bitter harvest for sugar beet farmers

Dec 17, 2019 at 07:23 AM CST
MOORHEAD, Minn. — It’s been a bitter harvest for many Minnesota and North Dakota sugar beet farmers. Nearly a third of the crop in some parts of the two states is frozen into the fields — where it’ll be left to rot — after a wet October delayed the harvest until the weather turned too cold. “This is far and away the worst (year), as far as beets left in the field,” Dan Younggren, who has raised sugar beets near Hallock in far northwestern Minnesota for about 40 years, told Minnesota Public Radio.

Dec 17, 2019 at 07:23 AM CST

MOORHEAD, Minn. — It’s been a bitter harvest for many Minnesota and North Dakota sugar beet farmers. Nearly a third of the crop in some parts of the two states is frozen into the fields — where it’ll be left to rot — after a wet October delayed the harvest until the weather turned too cold. “This is far and away the worst (year), as far as beets left in the field,” Dan Younggren, who has raised sugar beets near Hallock in far northwestern Minnesota for about 40 years, told Minnesota Public Radio.