Multiple Factors Result in Replants for ACSC

A total of 20,000 acres of sugarbeets had to be replanted in the American Crystal Sugar Company territory this spring. “This is from soil cresting, wind events, or even just the hot temperatures that we had earlier in the month,” said Joe Hastings, ACSC general agronomist. “We had heavy rains followed by heat that baked the soil, made a crust, which made it tough for the sugar beets to emerge, also, the wind sandblasted some of those early cotyledon beets, where we lost a few there so it was a mix of multiple factors in a lot of these fields.”