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, ...

Jenny Schlecht is the director of ag content for Agweek and serves as editor of Agweek, Sugarbeet Grower and BeanGrower. She ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sugarbeets are a relatively young crop compared to small grains. As the industry continues to innovate, an Extension expert ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beet growers and processors are welcoming better sugar-storing conditions as harvest gains momentum. Growers who own Boise-based processor Amalgamated Sugar Co. planted about 180,000 acres of sugar ...

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 ...