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This winter has been one of record warm temperatures, resulting in sugarbeet companies working to keep the crop from spoiling before the piles can be sliced and processed into sugar.

This winter has been one of record warm temperatures, resulting in sugarbeet companies working to keep the crop from spoiling before the piles can be sliced and processed into sugar.

This winter has been one of record-warm temperatures, resulting in sugarbeet companies working to keep the crop from spoiling before the piles can be sliced and processed into sugar

Per acre yields for the U.S. sugarbeet crop in 2023 ranged from slightly below to record, depending on late-season temperatures and rainfall.

Yields during the stockpile harvest, which was 99% complete on Oct. 23, 2023, averaged 31.9 tons per acre, said Steve Rosenau, the company’s vice president of agriculture.

Yields and sugar content are expected to, overall, be average or above, despite the dry growing season.

Yields and sugar content are expected to, overall, be average or above, despite the dry growing season.

Dry weather has allowed farmers to make steady progress.

The moisture will give sugarbeet production a boost. The unseasonably warm temperatures pushed crop development and the rows were just beginning to close in late June.

Sugarbeet planting nearly completed in early May in some states, just underway in others.