After a month of preliminary digging, the American Crystal Sugar Co. beet harvest began full tilt at midnight Tuesday, meaning hundreds of big trucks will be rumbling over roads up and down the Red ...

Dennis Dipple finally finished digging his sugar beets Monday, only one day earlier than his father's latest beet harvest 53 years ago, he said. Dipple, who lives in Grand Forks, raises beets for ...

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 ...

After a month of preliminary digging, the American Crystal Sugar Co. beet harvest began full tilt at midnight Tuesday, and hundreds of big trucks were rumbling over roads up and down the Red River ...

Left: Ken (left) and Mike Richmond (right) discuss the upcoming Michigan harvest with employee Todd Roestel. The Richmond brothers were featured in two articles in the July/August 2009 issue of The ...

POWELL — Western Sugar Cooperative growers in northern Wyoming are digging more sugar beets under the quota system that has been in place since a hard freeze damaged the beets in early October.

POWELL -- Western Sugar Cooperative officials have again halted growers from digging beets in the Lovell district of northern Wyoming. Officials say they must concentrate on processing beets that are ...

POWELL -- Western Sugar Cooperative growers in northern Wyoming are digging more sugar beets under the quota system that has been in place since a hard freeze damaged the beets in early October.