Colorado Crop Progress Report 2

National Ag Statistics Service’s Mountain Regional Director Bill Meyer shares results for sorghum, sugar beets and potatoes from the Colorado Crop Progress Report from the week ending November 1st.
Meyer: “For sorghum, we are estimating production at 14.0 million bushels, up 67 percent from last year. We expect growers to harvest to 350,000 acres, unchanged from last month but up 70,000 from last year. Average yield is forecast at 40 bushels per acre which is up 10 bushels from last year. Our sugar beet production is forecast at 913,000 tons down less than one percent from 917,000 last year. This is our first potato production forecast. We are estimating 22.7 million hundred weight grown in Colorado, that is a decrease of 519,000 hundred weight from last year’s crop. For the San Luis Valley, we are estimating 19.8 million hundred weight compared to 20.5 million last year. Then for the rest of the state, we are estimating 2.9 million hundred weight compared with 2.7 last year.”
The Report also states that Sorghum harvested for grain was estimated at 55 percent complete, compared with 39 percent last year and the 5-year average of 51 percent. As of November 1, harvest of sugarbeets was estimated at 65 percent complete, compared with 83 percent last year and the 5-year average of 84 percent.