For sugarbeets, crop conditions vary widely across the region. Jared Kovar at East Grand Forks said timely summer rainfall helped his crop and he has solid tonnage prospects and sugar content is average to slightly below average. “In the northern (Red River) Valley, I think the tons will be there, but in the Southern Valley, a lot of guys didn’t catch the rains and tons were short and the sugar percentage has been higher.” Kovar is vice president of the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association.
