MURDOCK, Minn. - 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 ...

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 ...

HARDIN — On his second lap around his sugar beet field south of the Crow cutoff, Brett Nedens looked up from his harvester’s controls and realized he was again being followed. Two men in a white Ford ...

Advances in technology have drastically changed the way the sugar beet is planted, grown, harvested and the beet itself. Beets now don’t have to be thinned, a labor-intensive job done by hand years ...

Bob Caister conjured up the dream of a self-propelled sugarbeet harvester. Then, he and two valuable employees took that dream all the way to reality. Reality took the form of “Sugar Sweet 9000,” the ...

Galen Lee harvests sugar beets Oct. 19 near New Plymouth, Idaho. Galen Lee liked what he saw from the cab of a sugar beet harvester that lifts and defoliates the crop in a single pass. The beets ...

EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn.-Waiting for the sugar beet harvest to start in the Red River Valley is like Christmas in a way, East Grand Forks farmer Nick Hagen said."You know what you've asked for, and you ...

Matt Helmreich, left inside the harvester, of Helmreich Farms in Bay County, harvests sugar beets Tuesday with Michael Gavin, president of Delta College. (Photo courtesy of Michigan Sugar Co. via ...

Brad Griff, the executive director of the Idaho Sugarbeet Growers Association, is cautiously optimistic that this year’s crop will be better than the 2019 crop. “Initially we were thinking it was ...