Harvest-As the title of this week's post states, the sugarbeet campaign has begun. Growers were told to begin harvesting on Friday, September 30. Hopefully this year's campaign will be a successful and safe one. The last report that I had heard was that total acreage was down some from last year due to the early spring weather and flooding and the early summer hail damage around Savage.
As far as small grains are concerned, we are pretty much wrapped up with harvesting those. Reports were that yield and quality were average to slightly below average but with prices holding steady producers are, for the most part, content. Silage harvest has slowed some and corn for grain harvest should begin before too much longer.
Weather-We have been a bit on the warm side for much of the past two weeks. If this trend continues, there is some concern that it will interfere with beet harvest. If temps are too warm throughout the day, beet harvest will stop and wait for cooler evening temps before resuming. This is done to prevent spoilage. We ran into this issue last year and growers would harvest in the late evenings and into the early mornings, then quit around noon and start back up in the late evenings again.
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