TAMPA, Fla. — Hearing that crisp snap as the roots separate and a fresh radish is plucked from carefully cultivated soil is a sound farm manager Kaitlin Davis doesn't tire of hearing. “Right now, I'm ...

CROOKSTON, Minn. — Fifty years after American Crystal Sugar was bought by farmers, a small group gathered in the Gold Link Senior Center in Crookston to learn not only the company’s history, but the ...

NEW YORK, Oct 29 (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 ...

Starring in two hot novels in the past six months suggests that the Minnesota vegetable is on a hot streak. Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red” was set in a town dependent on beets, with a prominent ...

OSLO, Minn. -- Every October, Ryan Scott moonlights from his day job in Grand Forks to work an eight-hour night shift hauling sugar beets for friends from their farm to giant piling sites during the ...

The latest Vervaet sugar beet harvesters will be put through their paces at J Riley's biennial working demonstration day in west Norfolk in.

Lately, Tony, Gio and I have found ourselves getting lost on the prairie at our friends' farmstead just south of Casselton, N.D. Greg and Lisa Cook, of Fargo, purchased the farm a year ago with a ...