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 ...

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 ...

American Crystal Sugar Co. began its full-bore beet harvest in the first minute of Oct. 2, a day later than usual because Oct. 1 was too warm. "What we like to do is have root temperatures of 55 ...

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, ...

David Berg knows a thing or two about the white, powdery, sweet stuff his company produces. As president of American Crystal Sugar Co., he knows when the sugar beet crops are good and when the harvest ...

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 ...

LOVELL — Growers in the Western Sugar Cooperative Lovell Factory District are producing a bumper crop, and the factory is humming as the fall campaign begins, factory manager Shannon Ellis reported at ...

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 ...