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 ...

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 ...

A root vegetable that was once the biggest crop in Colorado is now something many Coloradans have never even seen. Yet for most of us, Colorado-grown sugar beet is still a frequent part of our diets.

CHICAGO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - For years, sugar beets were a lifeline for American farmers. More than half of domestically produced sugar comes from the white-fleshed root crops, and robust demand from ...