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 ...

For many of the region's farmers, torrential summer rains took the fun out of this year's sugar beet harvest. About the only bright spot is recent price increases for refined sugar. In the Red River ...

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 ...

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 ...

The cold temperatures are making it the perfect time to harvest sugar beets. Truckers are already hauling beets to the Crystal Sugar factories so they can be stored throughout the winter to be ...

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've probably shaken the ...

HAMBURG, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The European Union's sugar beet harvest is progressing well and a sharp rise in sugar production is expected, experts said on Thursday. German commodity analysts F.O. Licht ...

HALLOCK, Minn., Nov 27 (Reuters) - Weather during harvest season in the U.S. Red River Valley, a fertile sugar beet region in Minnesota and North Dakota, has to farmers felt like a series of plagues.