WORDEN — The Karst family dropped everything and fired up their beet digger Sunday after Western Sugar sounded the alarm about rain. For the last five days, the sugar beet cooperative has been trying ...

Nebraska sugarbeet farmer Allan Thorson restored a 1957 International Harvester one-row beet digger similar to what his family used in the 1950s and '60s. He used it on two acres of his 2024 harvest.

The Imperial Valley might be the best place in the world to grow beets. What went wrong with the California industry?

A good rain right now would be just fine with Kelly Brester. The land could use the moisture, and it would set up the planting of winter wheat for grain farmers. But once he gets his sugar beet digger ...

With beets piled high at area sugar dumps, Western Sugar Cooperative expects to refine sugar through the first of February. Ending the sugar campaign around Feb. 1 would be an early finish, but ...

BILLINGS — Northeastern Montana farmers are putting up a record sugar crop that’s going to be hard to beat. Beet piles feeding Sidney Sugars’ factory are nearing 1 million tons as beet diggers in ...

BILLINGS - Most years, there are semitrucks heaped with sugar beets rumbling off of the Nedens family farm like clockwork in September. Western Sugar Cooperative uses the September beets harvested by ...