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With the area’s sugar beet harvest rolling past the halfway point, little crop damage was registered from a brief dip to temperatures below freezing in the last week.
Moisture from rain …
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With the area’s sugar beet harvest rolling past the halfway point, little crop damage was registered from a brief dip to temperatures below freezing in the last week.
Moisture from rain and snow was more of a problem, briefly shutting down harvesting operations over Western Sugar Cooperative’s Lovell factory district in Park and Big Horn counties.
“There was no frost damage to speak of,” said Heart Mountain grower Ric Rodriguez, a member of the cooperative’s board of directors. “It’s still extremely wet in some areas, but it’s getting better day by day.”
The weather forecast calls for some more moisture in the next couple of days, “but [it] doesn’t appear to be much,” he added.
Meanwhile, the harvest of the 2021 beet crop in the Lovell district was 50% complete as of Monday. Sugar content is averaging 18%, and all factories in Western Sugar’s four-state region are running well, Rodriguez said.
Some area growers will finish their digging this week, he predicted.
—By Dave Bonner
