date:Nov 22, 2012
The beets love heat: That's the reason we had a hot year, said Richard Seaworth, who farms sugar beets near Wellington.
In northeast Colorado and a portion of southwest Nebraska, a region tracked by the cooperative, farmers harvested a record average 32.37 tons per acre, Otto said. The 2012 harvest breaks a record average of 29.5 tons per acre in 2010.
Seaworth also attributed the successful yield to a genetically modified seed developed by Monsanto that enables sugar beets to withstand w