Yields and sugar are improving for the sugarbeets in the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative growing area. “We’ve been at pre-pile harvest since August 10 and it’s nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel, watching the calendar turn into October,” says Mike Metzger, vice-president of agriculture, Minn-Dak Famers Cooperative. “The sugar percentage of this crop is increasing. Deliveries the other day at the factory were at 16.5 percent and that’s a good thing.” The full harvest is scheduled for October 1, only a few days away.