Harvesting sugar beets -- Alberta Sugar Beet Growers

By Dori Modney

Severe Alberta weather prompts Rogers Sugar to Terminate 2019 Beet Harvest

Nov 7, 2019 | 3:35 PM

VANCOUVER — Rogers Sugar Inc. has announced that due to the impact of recent severe adverse weather in Alberta on the 2019 sugar beet crop, a decision has been made to terminate the beet harvest.

A news release was issued by Rogers Sugar Thursday (Nov 7) afternoon, stating “the decision was made following an exhaustive analysis by the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers and the Corporation, which jointly determined that severe snow and frost damage has resulted in an inability to store or process the unharvested damaged sugar beet crop.”

As a result, Rogers now estimates the current crop should produce between 60,000 metric tonnes to 70,000 metric tonnes of refined sugar.

There are 190 beet producers in southern Alberta and about 45 per cent of the crop will be left in the ground.

The Corporation is reviewing all available options to service its customers, one of which will include the supply of cane sugar from the Vancouver and Montréal refineries, which both have excess capacity.

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Rogers, which markets sugar under Lantic Incorporated operates the only Canadian sugar beet processing facility in Taber.