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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

MID-MICHIGAN (WNEM) - The cold weather is here to stay as the fall season is in full swing, and that also means it’s time for the sugar beet harvest. “Harvest is about half-done. We’re about 50 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. — Mike Hasbargen has done this before and he’s not looking forward to the fall sugar beet harvest. The soil is soaked, he said. West central and northern Minnesota have received ...