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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MURDOCK - It's a warm fall morning that followed enough rain to make fields slimy and prone to deep tractor-tire ruts, but a bright yellow behemoth of a machine is having no trouble gliding across a ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. — American Crystal Sugar has started its sugar beet harvest in the northern Red River Valley. The cooperative started pre-pile harvest Aug. 20 in its most southern districts and on Aug ...

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 ...

HAMBURG, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The European Union's sugar beet harvest is progressing well and a sharp rise in sugar production is expected, experts said on Thursday. German commodity analysts F.O. Licht ...

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 ...