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 ...

FARGO — The full stockpile harvest is officially open across the Fargo area for sugar beet farmers. The early planting season, with flooding and followed by a record dry fall, has kept farmers on ...

The Northwest sugar beet harvest is finishing strong, thanks to a stretch of cooperative weather. “Favorable weather conditions with minimal precipitation have contributed to the successful harvest ...

On Wednesday, Sept. 24, Polk County farmers helped Mark Holy, recently diagnosed with ALS, by harvesting over 400 acres of sugarbeets for his family. More than 100 farmers and drivers showed up to ...

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.

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 ...

Neighbors, friends and family members pitch in to harvest sugar beets for Polk County grower Mark Holy as he faces ALS diagnosis Family and friends of Mark Holy watch machinery arrive at a field ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) -For years, sugar beets were a lifeline for American farmers. More than half of domestically produced sugar comes from the white-fleshed root crops, and robust demand from the ...

A farmer says he will stop growing sugar beet after 25 years due to declining profits, complex contracts and increasingly unpredictable weather. David Wheatley, 47, who farms near Wisbech St Mary, ...