Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Co-op’s pre-pile harvest is underway. Farmers who grow sugarbeets for the Renville, Minnesota-based cooperative began digging their crop on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. The ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - American Crystal Sugar Co. is starting its initial sugar beet harvest this week in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. During the "pre-pile" ...

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 ...

Demand for sugar, a $3.1 billion industry for Minnesota, is down, and farmers see a direct connection with the MAHA movement.

The Minnesota sugar beet crop should be smaller this year, thanks to the long winter and rainy start to the summer. Yield forecasts are down more than a ton per acre, about a 4 percent decline, ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- The opening of the Red River Valley sugar beet harvest has been helped by warm, windy weather, American Crystal Sugar officials say. This year's pre-pile harvest, which is aimed ...

The rain that started across the Red River Valley Sunday shut down the sugar beet harvest by Monday with about half the crop in. It also halted the harvest of dry edible beans and soybeans, which had ...

RENVILLE — A smaller crop to process and a long-sought agreement allowing the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative to extend the time period for discharging its treated wastewater should have ...

ST. PAUL - Minnesota farmers made significant harvest progress this past week thanks to continued warm, dry weather. The sugarbeet harvest took a 41 percentage-point jump to 95 percent complete as of ...