The Nord farm is located near Wolverton, Minn. It was acquired during the early 1950s by Jeff’s dad, Richard, and three generations have lived and farmed there since. This story begins at the Jeff and ...

For many years, plot harvest for the Michigan Sugar Company Research Department entailed working with a pair of two-row Farmhand harvesters whose origin dated back to the mid-1950s. The machines went ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. You would hardly know it today, when South Bay towns like Torrance and ...

EAST GRAND FORKS -- As a fourth-generation beet farmer and also as a shareholder in American Crystal Sugar, I think that it is necessary to understand the investment that farmers have made in our ...

A root vegetable that was once the biggest crop in Colorado is now something many Coloradans have never even seen. Yet for most of us, Colorado-grown sugar beet is still a frequent part of our diets.