FARGO, N.D. -- Will Red River Valley area sugar beet farmers change from the familiar pull-behind sugar beet harvesters to self-propelled machines? Four manufacturers are hoping so, as they talked up ...

For many years, plot harvest for the Michigan Sugar Company Research Department entailed working with a pair of two-row Farmhand harvesters whose origin dated back to the mid-1950s. The machines went ...

MID-MICHIGAN, Mich. (WJRT) - Michigan Sugar Co. expects a record year as the annual sugar beet harvest hits full speed. The grower-owned cooperative anticipates harvesting around 5.4 million tons of ...

LOVELL — Growers in the Western Sugar Cooperative Lovell Factory District are producing a bumper crop, and the factory is humming as the fall campaign begins, factory manager Shannon Ellis reported at ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho — Doug Evans likes the looks of his beets and those that other farmers in his region produced. In the relatively high-altitude growing area, word was that sugar content “started off a ...

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

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 ...

Montana sugar beet farmers are expecting a decent crop, despite weather challenges due to record-breaking summer heat. Western Sugar Cooperative farmers were about 40% done with their harvest Monday ...

AMERICAN FALLS — As he wraps up a tumultuous growing season, complicated by coronavirus-related market disruptions, Jim Tiede knows he can count on at least one crop to sweeten his harvest outlook.

MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) - Sugar beet growers around Mid-Michigan received an order to leave 5% of their crop in the ground and Michigan Sugar Co. recently offered a voluntary buyback to avoid harvesting ...

BAY CITY, MI - It’s sugar beet harvest season in Bay County. Trucks have been busy hauling what could ba a record crop of beets from farms around the area to Michigan Sugar’s facilities. Officials at ...