PARK RIVER, N.D. — Owen Melland’s lifter, harvester and truck moved in unison down a field near Park River on Oct. 4, initiating his 2023 sugarbeet stockpile harvest. Melland, a Walsh County North ...

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 ...

After a month of preliminary digging, the American Crystal Sugar Co. beet harvest was scheduled to begin full tilt at midnight Tuesday, meaning hundreds of big trucks will be rumbling over roads up ...

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Co-op’s pre-pile harvest is underway. Farmers who grow sugarbeets for the Renville, Minnesota-based cooperative began digging their crop on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. The ...

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 ...

TWIN FALLS -- An Idaho company is expecting record sugar beet crops to yield nearly 40 tons per acre in Magic Valley this year. The Times-News reports farmers began digging crops on Sept. 8, and ...

FISHER, Minn. — They called it the Big Dig, with friends, family and neighbors coming from miles around to harvest the sugar beets that Todd Radi planted this spring. Radi got the beets in the ground, ...

Josh Neibauer, left watches out his mirror while driving a sugar beet truck Tuesday as his father Greg Neibauer drives the beet digger, tractor in west Billings. The beet harvest is in full swing in ...

"The cows won't get them all, but maybe about a third of them that are above ground," said Lackman, who serves as president of the Mountain States Beet Growers Association, which represents the ...

The British Sugar factory at Wissington, an eight-mile (13km) drive from Downham Market, is now dubbed "the largest and the ...