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Read more: State, Agriculture, Consumer, Wellington, Colorado, Sugar Beets, Harvest, Western Sugar Company
WELLINGTON, Colo. (AP) — Sugar beet farmers in northern Colorado say they're celebrating the sweetest harvest in memory. Farmers say the sugar beet crop was helped by a rainy spring and mild temperatures over the summer. There was little wind damage, and prices were high because a cyclone wiped out much of the sugar cane crop in India this year. Also, unseasonably cold weather in northern Wyoming in October damaged an estimated $12 million worth of sugar beets there. The Western Sugar Cooperative reports that acreage in sugar beets around Wellington in Larimer County went from 1,500 acres in 2008 to 2,400 acres this year. (Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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