Sugarbeets are especially vulnerable to the strong winds seen this past week. Grand Forks area farmer Chris Adams hopes the beets were small enough to avoid replanting. A lot of topsoil has been moving with the winds. “It’s definitely making us rethink our fall tillage practices. We didn’t have any snow cover so all of last year’s edible bean ground just wants to blow away, so we gotta make some changes and try to get some cover crop action going in the fall.”
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