RENVILLE, Minn. -- A wet autumn and freezing conditions have taken a toll on this year's sugar beet harvest. Sugar beet growers in west-central Minnesota will not harvest an estimated 25,000 acres, or ...

Q: I ran out of time as I was finishing up garden chores, and I never harvested a couple dozen beets. They’re still out there. The ground is frozen, and when I dig up a beet it is covered with ice ...

Despite temperatures that went down as low as 27 degrees in some parts of the northern Red River Valley before dawn today, no real damage was done to the high-value and late-planted sugar beet crop.

Western Sugar Area Manager Jerry Darnell says the replanting is being done in the Morrill, Bayard, and Kimball areas in western Nebraska. Darnell believes beets in Box Butte County got through the ...