Soggy weather slows Mid-Columbia sugar beet harvest
date:Oct 30, 2012
ge of 42 to 46 tons per acre.

Sugar beets look like giant turnips, and may weight around 3 pounds. While most are white, a few in Munn's field were a lush red. Munn said the sugar beets are a mix of varieties, and every once in a while, the color of the root vegetable shows that one of its parents was a red beet.

Munn rotates the crops on his land in a four-year cycle, with a rotation crop such as peas or green beans, then grass seed, followed by onions and sugar beets.

Onions are the crop th
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