Times-News: Magicvalley.com, Twin Falls, ID
BURLEY - Picnics and fishing trips haven't been the only casualties of this spring's less-than-comfortable weather.
Stacey Camp, Mini-Cassia district agriculture manager for Amalgamated Sugar Co., said Thursday cold, windy weather is a contributing factor in reducing by nearly 10 percent the number of acres the company's Paul factory will harvest.
"It's the worst spring I've seen as far as trying to get a crop up and keep it going," Camp said.
Camp said many beet crops were lost this spring when frost and hard winds set in, killing the young plants. Some farmers replanted, only to have the same thing happen again.
"By then it's so late in May that the grower has to make a decision: Is it worth it for me to try to grow beets again, or should I put in another crop?" Camp said.
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