The Red River Valley's sugar beet crop is the odd man out in this season of early planted, early harvested crops, with digging actually behind normal schedules. After a week or more of little or no ...

As of today, American Crystal Sugar Co.'s growers had lifted and hauled 81 percent of their sugar beet crop, said Jeff Schweitzer, spokesman for the Moorhead-based grower-owned cooperative. In fact, ...

As his sugar beet harvest continued, Zach Patterson of Paul, Idaho, liked much of what he saw — considering the challenges of the early season. “The beets that escaped the hailstorms did exceptionally ...

GRAND FORKS - A new kind of hobo is helping harvest the sugar beet crop in the Red River Valley. Lately, however, they have been more hoping than helping, stymied by the warm then wet weather that has ...

The Northwest sugar beet harvest is finishing strong, thanks to a stretch of cooperative weather. “Favorable weather conditions with minimal precipitation have contributed to the successful harvest ...

Sugar beet farmers in Mid-Michigan could soon benefit from new federal assistance aimed at alleviating the challenges posed by rising costs and adverse weather conditions. The U.S. Department of ...

A wet weekend has brought the Red River Valley sugar beet harvest to a halt. American Crystal Sugar Co. spokesman Jeff Schweitzer told WDAY AM Radio News that even under a best-case scenario, the ...

The sugarbeet harvest was underway across most U.S. growing regions during the first week of October. Harvest was going smoothly for the most part. Typical for early in the beet campaign, rain showers ...

WORLAND, Wyo. (AP) — This year’s sugar beet harvest in the Bighorn Basin set a record for tons per acre. The average was just over 29.3 tons per acre, while sugar content was close to a record at 17.9 ...

RENVILLE, Minn. — The sugar beet harvest is under way. Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative at Renville, Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative based in Wahpeton, N.D., and American Crystal Sugar in ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. -- It's been an on-again, off-again type of harvest for sugar beet farmers in the Red River Valley. Changes between warm and cold temperatures and saturated field conditions have ...

Charlotte Smith and Vick Hope are in the east of England following the journey of Britain’s sugar beet, 100 years after the ...