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 ...

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 ...

If your garden space is limited, you'll be happy to learn that beets are one of the veggies that can successfully grow in a ...

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 ...

As his sugar beet harvest continued, Zach Patterson of Paul, Idaho, liked much of what he saw — considering the challenges of the early season. “The beets that escaped the hailstorms did exceptionally ...

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 ...

Sugarbeet companies across the U.S. had been good progress on early harvest of beets by the beginning of October, with some working toward full harvest while others were waiting out unseasonably warm ...

FARGO, N.D. -- Large trucks filled with sugar beets are rumbling along highways throughout the Red River Valley. It's harvest time. "For growers, it's the main event when they convert all their ...

FARGO, N.D. — American Crystal Sugar Co. farmers are starting their beet harvest this week. It's the earliest start in the Red River Valley cooperative's history. The pre-pile harvest is to begin ...

WORLAND, Wyo. (AP) — This year’s sugar beet harvest in the Bighorn Basin set a record for tons per acre. The average was just over 29.3 tons per acre, while sugar content was close to a record at 17.9 ...

"Harvest conditions have been just excellent," he says. "We're delivering 220,000 to 250,000 tons of beets a day, which is a near-record pace. Minn-Dak officials figure the yield will average 22.5 ...