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 ...

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 ...

WAHPETON, N.D. -- Sugar beet cooperatives in the region have had smooth sailing so far on their pre-pile harvest campaign, which allows them to start their factories and prepare for the full-scale ...

MOORHEAD - Amid a poor sugar price climate and with a 22-month labor lockout ended, American Crystal Sugar Co. started its pre-pile sugar beet harvest Tuesday. Dan Gowan, American Crystal's director ...

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 ...

OSLO, Minn. -- Every October, Ryan Scott moonlights from his day job in Grand Forks to work an eight-hour night shift hauling sugar beets for friends from their farm to giant piling sites during the ...

In its annual compliance report, the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative reported no violations while processing and storing one of its largest crops ever. Sugar beets are transferred from ...

MOORHEAD — While fans of summer are enjoying the recent warm weather, it's not good news for some of area farmers. The original plan was to try and start harvesting Oct. 1, but the weather has just ...

Canada geese crowd the top of a sugar beet pile at the Western Sugar refinery as the temperature rises into the 40's on Sunday. Temperatures will stay in the 30's and 40's the rest of the week. LARRY ...

He worked his first sugar beet harvest when he was freshly 18, joining his parents and grandparents in the long line of farmworkers who came before him. José Contreras, foreman at an American Crystal ...