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  • Record Breaking 2014 Beet Harvest

    Meagan Dotson|Dec 31, 2014

    The 2014 beet harvest was a record breaking crop not only in terms of tonnage, but also in regards to sugar content. With a yield of 30.4 tons per acre and sugar content at 18.44%, this harvest has quite surpassed previous years. Looking at past crops, the 2012 harvest was the closest in terms of mass quantity with 27.9 tons per acre. According to Russ Fulmer, this was "quite a year" with estimates being one ton less than what was actually harvested. Though the last several years the tonnage...