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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Left: Beet seedlings in ‘conetainers’ await vernalization for rapid-cycle seed production. Mitch McGrath is research geneticist with the USDA-ARS Sugarbeet & Bean Research Unit, Michigan State ...

Historical sugar beet harvest photos take center stage at University of Minnesota Crookston (From left to right) Lauren Wallace, Ken Mendez and Megan Beck Peterson hold a photograph belonging to the ...