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 ...

At left, Joel Gremel, of J and L Gremel Farm, drives a self-propelled sugarbeet harvester, while daughter Erica Bednarski pulls a beet cart on Sept. 5, 2023, in a Huron County field near Gagetown, ...

GRAND FORKS – Laws exempting farmers from certain truck driving regulations have been on the books for decades, but while farmers and others believe them vital to a smooth harvest, others are ...

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 ...

KANDIYOHI COUNTY, Minn. — Two semi-truck drivers were injured in separate crashes after their trucks, each filled with sugar beets, rolled in central Minnesota. Both drivers were sent to the hospital, ...

Another wacky weather year failed to break corn-growers' collective stride in Minnesota, where farmers put 1.51 billion bushels in bins for a 4% increase from 2022. Nationwide, 2023's harvest turned ...

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 ...

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 ...

Author Margie Sarsfield based her novel "Beta Vulgaris" on experiences she had a little more than a decade ago when she travelled to Minnesota to work on the sugar beet harvest. She said she knew ...