Minnesota's sugar beet industry celebrates record harvest during the sweetest season

Minnesota's sugar beet farmers beat the odds this fall with American Crystal Sugar farmers piling up a record 12.7 million tons of beets in a growing season cycling between wet and dry spells.

Not only were the beets big, but they also were loaded with sugar, which gets used for sweetener in soft drinks to candy bars to baked goods.

"You tell me what happened," Harrison Weber, executive director with the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association, said. "We were getting reports in the [Red River] Valley that were kind of hit-and-miss."

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