FARGO — The full stockpile harvest is officially open across the Fargo area for sugar beet farmers. The early planting season, with flooding and followed by a record dry fall, has kept farmers on ...

Sugarbeets are a relatively young crop compared to small grains. As the industry continues to innovate, an Extension expert ...

Farmers are hoping for a cool, wet spring to halt a three-year population explosion of a pest which has the potential to ...

Philomath, Ore. -- Organic farmers fear this year’s spring breezes will be carrying pollen from genetically altered sugar beets, which they say could render their crops worthless, and they hope to ...

Ask any beet farmer to identify the late fall odor hanging over Billings and they’ll say it’s the smell of money emanating from the stacks of the South Side sugar refinery. This year, it smells like ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - America's sugar beet growers are under siege as U.S. food companies increasingly shun genetically modified (GMO) crops. In the past seven years, the farmers – many in Minnesota, ...

"The cows won't get them all, but maybe about a third of them that are above ground," said Lackman, who serves as president of the Mountain States Beet Growers Association, which represents the ...

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 ...