This year’s yields for the Montana company, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Crystal Sugar Co., in Moorhead, Minnesota, averaged 27 tons per acre, three tons per acre lower than the long-term average, said Duane Peters, Sidney Sugars’ agricultural manager.
In northern growing areas a cold, wet spring delayed planting, and then wind destroyed some of the acreage so farmers had to replant it. In western states, hail damaged acres shortly after they were replanted because of wind damage