GRAND FORKS -- Most of American Crystal Sugar Co.’s factories apparently will wind up their slicing campaigns by early March. That’s two and a half months earlier than the company’s average finish ...

Throughout the summer, Extension educators received many calls concerning problems with canning red beets. Many people seem confused about canning plain beets in water versus pickled beets canned in a ...

American Crystal Sugar Co.'s beet harvest remains on hold, since being stopped Oct. 2 because the temperatures were too high for beets to store well in the huge stockpiles set up around the region for ...

The process of farming and refining sugar beet in Britain hasn't changed much, but the power and the machinery behind it have. In 1925, a fledgling sugar factory in Norfolk managed to process 600 ...

With our sugar consumption likely to rise with Halloween candy piling up, we look at the history of sugar and why California’s last sugar beet plant is leaving the state. South Bay restaurant cleared ...

If you are a sugarbeet grower, the growing season can be a long, hard road — from planting in the spring, to spraying in the summer, to the grueling grind of harvest in the fall. If you’re a harvested ...

Old photos of Minnesota sugar beet harvest capture the Great Depression and the American dream “Roots of the Red River Valley: Through the Lens of Russell Lee,” now on display in Moorhead, uses images ...