PARK RIVER, N.D. — Owen Melland’s lifter, harvester and truck moved in unison down a field near Park River on Oct. 4, initiating his 2023 sugarbeet stockpile harvest. Melland, a Walsh County North ...

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 ...

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Co-op’s pre-pile harvest is underway. Farmers who grow sugarbeets for the Renville, Minnesota-based cooperative began digging their crop on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - For years, sugar beets were a lifeline for American farmers. More than half of domestically produced sugar comes from the white-fleshed root crops, and robust demand from ...