Expected sugar beet production down 2 percent from last year

Wyoming

An updated forecast based on Sept. 1 conditions indicates Wyoming sugar beet production will be slightly down from last year, according to Sofiya Cherni with the Wyoming Field Office of U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service. The sugar beet production forecast is down 2 percent below last year. According to the Crop Weather report for Wyoming ending Aug. 31 the sugar beet condition was rated 84 percent good or better.

Sugar beet producers intended to harvest 27,000 acres, down 3,200 acres from last year. The expected average yield is 24.0 tons per acre, up 2 tons from the Aug. 1 forecast and 2.2 tons more than the 2007 yield. Total production is expected to be 648,000 tons, 2 percent below 2007. The following forecasts were carried forward from Aug. 1. Based on Aug. 1 conditions, barley production was expected to total 6.75 million bushels, up 43 percent from last year's crop and up 39 percent from 2006. Dry bean production in 2008 is forecast at 708,000 hundredweight. The Aug. 1 forecast for alfalfa hay was 1.68 million tons, up 9 percent from last year's crop, and up 20 percent from the 2006 crop. Yields are expected to average 2.8 tons per acre, 0.1 ton above last year. Production of all other hay, at 840,000 tons, down fractionally from last year but up 17 percent from 2006. Acreage expected to be cut is at 600,000, up 70,000 acres from 2007. Average yield, at 1.4 tons per acre, is down 0.2 ton per acre from 2007 but up 0.1 ton per acre from 2006.

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Date: 9/17/08

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