Sugar beets being harvested across southern Alberta

While harvest for most crops in southern Alberta is just about wrapped up, sugar beets have now just started to come out of the ground. The sugar beets have been in the ground since the middle of spring and now producers are racing to get them out before the first frost. Like most crops, sugar beets have had a challenging growing season having to deal with hail, grasshoppers and a lack of water. “There's been a lot of challenges this year. The Lethbridge northern irrigation district, was s