Wind damage took its toll on Allen Tucker’s sugarbeet crop at St. Thomas, North Dakota. Before he could call the planting season complete, Tucker had to go back across those beet fields. When the Red River Farm Network was on the Tucker farm for Crop Watch, the seeding of dry edible beans was nearly complete and the drill was going to be converted back to sugarbeets.”It’s been a long time since we’ve had to re-seed sugarbeets,” Tucker told RRFN. “We’ve been blessed, but this year we got caught and we’re grumpy about it. We’re gonna power through this and hope for the best. The earlier-seeded and later-seeded beets both look pretty good. It’s these slot beets in the middle that were very vulnerable on that fierce wind.”
