With such a wet growing season, Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative Vice President of Agriculture Mike Metzger says recent dry weather has helped with yield and sugar content. “Yields right now, they’re all over the board. We’ve got guys that are lifting upper teens, and we have other individuals that already have 30 tons plus per acre.” After a slow start, Metzger says sugar conent is rebounding. “As far as quality goes, we started out here at 12 percent sugar which is down about two percentage points from where we normally are. We’re starting to see that crawl up closer to 16 percent and we hope that can get up closer to 18 percent over the next couple of weeks.”
