Beet growers and processors are welcoming better sugar-storing conditions as harvest gains momentum. Growers who own Boise-based processor Amalgamated Sugar Co. planted about 180,000 acres of sugar ...

MID-MICHIGAN, Mich. (WJRT) - Michigan Sugar Co. expects a record year as the annual sugar beet harvest hits full speed. The grower-owned cooperative anticipates harvesting around 5.4 million tons of ...

As his sugar beet harvest continued, Zach Patterson of Paul, Idaho, liked much of what he saw — considering the challenges of the early season. “The beets that escaped the hailstorms did exceptionally ...

The Red River Valley's sugar beet crop is the odd man out in this season of early planted, early harvested crops, with digging actually behind normal schedules. After a week or more of little or no ...

David Berg knows a thing or two about the white, powdery, sweet stuff his company produces. As president of American Crystal Sugar Co., he knows when the sugar beet crops are good and when the harvest ...

MID-MICHIGAN (WNEM) - The cold weather is here to stay as the fall season is in full swing, and that also means it’s time for the sugar beet harvest. “Harvest is about half-done. We’re about 50 ...

American Crystal's sugar beet harvest in the Red River Valley is nearly complete, and the yields look to be matching the record 25.5 tons per acre set two years ago, according to company officials.

The 2011 sugarbeet harvest marked the second year of an innovative — and successful — beet loading and storage project involving growers and staff of Michigan Sugar Company. In this project, which has ...