date:Dec 30, 2013
o recover before harvest. Some loss in acreage did occur in early June due to heavy rains and localized flooding. The sunny, warm autumn helped lead to a good, quality harvest. The 2013 sugar beet crop yielded an estimated at 11,000 thousand MT. Given early season conditions producers were satisfied with the average yield estimated at 58 MT per Ha.
Concentration of production is an on-going process driven by better, more efficient technologies that generate better yields. Over the last ten