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UP / Thumb of Michigan | You asked about the tops. Growing tops takes sugar from the beet. So, if for some reason some beets were topped too far ahead of the harvester, like if you were to get rained out or if it gets too warm to lift, the tops want to regrow. Robbing some salable sugar in the process.
Another issue with tops is if they don't get removed completely, they can make it hard to store a beet pile long term. Kind of sort of like FM in grain- more times than not, a grain storage problem starts with the FM.
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Sugar beets in Minnesota
