Sugarbeet harvest was all-but completed by mid-November 2025. But the results were highly variable, from records to ...

In the 1890s a canal was built to furnish water to farms around Culbertson, located in southwest Nebraska. It was called "Farmers Ditch," and it was needed by the farmers to grow crops. In 1916 my ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho — Doug Evans likes the looks of his beets and those that other farmers in his region produced. In the relatively high-altitude growing area, word was that sugar content “started off a ...

FARGO -- Thanks to miserable weather, profits from this fall's sugar beet harvest won't be nearly as sweet for American Crystal Sugar growers as last year. A tractor is used to pull a truck through ...

You know that some of the sugar you purchase in stores is derived from sugar cane, right? You may also know that unless you live in a tropical climate, you wouldn't be able to grow sugar cane in your ...

A California judge said this week that the latest round of "Roundup Ready" sugar beet seeds likely shouldn't have been planted, the newest development in an ongoing legal battle over the use of ...

After several years of strong prices, sugar farmers are taking their lumps, analysts say. World production of beet and cane sugar has sent sugar prices into in a slump, a trend that doesn’t bode well ...

BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. -- After years of growing sugar beets in the rich soil of the Red River Valley, Mike Hasbargen figures he can handle the gamut of minor catastrophes that occur with every new crop: ...

CROOKSTON, Minn. -- It's been six years since Allan Dragseth and neighbor Roger Odegaard decided to take the lead on getting the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Museum up and running. Since then, they have ...