MURDOCK - It's a warm fall morning that followed enough rain to make fields slimy and prone to deep tractor-tire ruts, but a bright yellow behemoth of a machine is having no trouble gliding across a ...

Charlotte Smith and Vick Hope are in the east of England following the journey of Britain’s sugar beet, 100 years after the first production of home-grown sugar.

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 ...

Beet growers and processors are welcoming better sugar-storing conditions as harvest gains momentum. Growers who own Boise-based processor Amalgamated Sugar Co. planted about 180,000 acres of sugar ...

FARGO, N.D. — If you're running equipment from the 1960s — a not unheard of thing on farms — you're going to have some breakdowns. And when you do, finding parts might be tough. Tom Peters, Extension ...

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 ...

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It is a well known fact that working in the agriculture industry has its fair share of unknowns. From wavering market prices to unpredictable weather, agriculturalists have learned to weather the ...

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 ...

MINSK, 2 September (BelTA) – The nationwide sugar beet harvesting has begun in Belarus, BelTA learned from the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Farms and organizations across the ...