NAMPA — The sugar beet harvest is revealing another casualty of last year’s harsh winter as farmers and producers are reporting a crop that’s not living up to expectations. Amalgamated Sugar said ...

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 delayed ...

The 2011 sugarbeet harvest marked the second year of an innovative — and successful — beet loading and storage project involving growers and staff of Michigan Sugar Company. In this project, which has ...

FELTON, Minn. — In the fields, it felt like fall. It was a picture-perfect harvest day. The beets were coming off by the truckload at Dahl Farms near Felton. Still supervising his sons and ...

PARK RIVER, N.D. -- Bernie Kringstad started his business with three employees who repaired farm machinery and manufactured potato equipment. Now fast-growing Kringstad Ironworks near Park River, N.D.

POWELL - The first loads of sugar beets for 2007 began arriving at the Powell beet dump off Road 10 and U.S. 14-A earlier this month. At first glance, it seems to be a pretty simple process: trucks ...

Sugar beets are related to garden beets, though without much use as a raw vegetable. Instead, a sugar beet packs as much sugar into its cells as possible, up to 18% of its total weight. Because sugar ...

Oct. 12—KITTSON COUNTY, Minn. — On Wednesday, Oct. 11, a Laporte, Minnesota, man died from injuries he sustained two days earlier when he was run over by a sugar beet truck in Kittson County. Patrick ...

PARK RIVER, N.D. -- Bernie Kringstad started his business with three employees who repaired farm machinery and manufactured potato equipment. Now, fast-growing Kringstad Ironworks near Park River has ...

Oct. 12—KITTSON COUNTY, Minn. — On Wednesday, Oct. 11, a Laporte, Minnesota, man died from injuries he sustained two days earlier when he was run over by a sugar beet truck in Kittson County. Patrick ...