After a month of preliminary digging, the American Crystal Sugar Co. beet harvest began full tilt at midnight Tuesday, meaning hundreds of big trucks will be rumbling over roads up and down the Red ...

After a month of preliminary digging, the American Crystal Sugar Co. beet harvest was scheduled to begin full tilt at midnight Tuesday, meaning hundreds of big trucks will be rumbling over roads up ...

Fisher, Minn. - They called it the Big Dig. Friends, family and neighbors, some from far away, came Monday to harvest the sugar beets Todd Radi had planted this spring. A convoy of sugar beet lifters ...

Sugar beet farmers do not receive a subsidy check from the federal government and haven't since 1973-74. The price support that underlies beet sugar goes to the processor in the event that the market ...