Despite late planting and a wet fall, the 2011 sugar beet harvest was a good one. And, despite a mostly-absent Old Man Winter, the sugar beet stockpiles are faring well as they await processing at Michigan Sugar. Paul Pfenninger, vice president of agriculture for Monitor Township-based Michigan Sugar, said that while temperatures in December were higher than in past years, they were fairly consistent, lending to stable piles of beets. “The worst case scenario happens when you have freeze-and-thaw cycles,” Pfenninger said. “We have not frozen at all.”
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