GRAND FORKS -- Most of American Crystal Sugar Co.’s factories apparently will wind up their slicing campaigns by early March. That’s two and a half months earlier than the company’s average finish ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. -- Some beet growers in the southern Red River Valley have started their sugar beet pre-pile harvest and the region's biggest co-op is implementing a new plan to deal with excessively ...

Throughout the summer, Extension educators received many calls concerning problems with canning red beets. Many people seem confused about canning plain beets in water versus pickled beets canned in a ...

If you are a sugarbeet grower, the growing season can be a long, hard road — from planting in the spring, to spraying in the summer, to the grueling grind of harvest in the fall. If you’re a harvested ...

FARGO - A project that will develop an advanced biofuel from energy beets and provide growers across North Dakota with a new industrial crop is taking another important step forward, fueled by a ...

Left: Beet seedlings in ‘conetainers’ await vernalization for rapid-cycle seed production. Mitch McGrath is research geneticist with the USDA-ARS Sugarbeet & Bean Research Unit, Michigan State ...

With our sugar consumption likely to rise with Halloween candy piling up, we look at the history of sugar and why California’s last sugar beet plant is leaving the state. South Bay restaurant cleared ...

Old photos of Minnesota sugar beet harvest capture the Great Depression and the American dream “Roots of the Red River Valley: Through the Lens of Russell Lee,” now on display in Moorhead, uses images ...