SUGAR BEETS
STAFF BLOG AG RIGHT 'Super-busy' harvest
Early October has brought beautiful weather (so far) to the Upper Midwest, and area farmers are taking advantage. The harvest of remaining crops -- mainly soybeans, corn, sugar beets, potatoes and sun...
Posted on 10/2/12 at 10:12 AM
Dry times
Chad Groos, 41, farms two miles north of Coleman, S.D., with his father, Andy, and brothers Eric and Grant. Groos says his family is fortunate this year, compared with those farther south plagued by severe drought.
By Mikkel Pates , September 10, 2012
Talks fail Friday, Crystal says parties still ‘far apart’
A mediation session Friday involving American Crystal Sugar Co. executives and union workers ended without a deal to end a lockout more than 10 months old.
By Forum Communications , June 08, 2012
Frost hits area beans
Crops in northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota generally appear to be OK after an early morning frost Wednesday.
By Jonathan Knutson , May 30, 2012
Tense future
FARGO, N.D. — This year could be a significant turning point in the battle against glyphosate-resistant weeds in the Red River Valley, Jeff Stachler says.
By Mikkel Pates , April 30, 2012
Crystal says union's cost estimate of labor struggle too high
FARGO, N.D. — American Crystal Sugar Co. officials deny new union claims that a labor lockout has more than doubled processing costs for 2011 beets. They acknowledge costs have increased, but say farmer-owners already know about the costs, and say the company is seeing its replacement hires as a possible permanent workforce.
By Mikkel Pates , April 30, 2012
Beet-energy promoter loses broker license
FARGO, N.D. — A man promoting investments in a sugar beet-to-ethanol project at Grafton, N.D., has resigned as a securities broker with Multi-Financial Securities Corp., after an investor-client complaint. Darrell Duane Smith on March 23 was the main presenter for Energae LP Holdings at a meeting in Grafton, N.D.
By Mikkel Pates , April 23, 2012
Sidney Sugars' Sing to retire
Steve Sing, 62, the first and only general manager of the Sidney Sugars Co. plant in Sidney, Mont., has announced he’ll retire at the end of May. Sidney Sugars is a subsidiary of American Crystal Sugar Co., where Sing has spent the bulk of his professional career — almost 37 years.
By Mikkel Pates , April 23, 2012
Staggered end
FARGO, N.D. — Sugar beet processing season is coming to a close in the Red River Valley, even as the planting season is revving up.
By Mikkel Pates , April 23, 2012
All in a (long) day's work
REYNOLDS, N.D. — It’s 11 a.m. on a sunny mid-April morning, and Gregg Johnson already has put in an eight-hour day. Roughly eight more hours of work await him.
By Jonathan Knutson , April 23, 2012
Sugar beets-to-ethanol
FARGO, N.D — With planting less than a month away, a company hoping to contract with farmers in 2012 to convert sugar beets into ethanol at a defunct corn-based ethanol plant in Grafton, N.D., has only about 400 acres of its 12,000-acre goal, officials say.
By Mikkel Pates , April 02, 2012
Shaping the future
Erik Younggren wants to play a role in shaping his future. In the process, he’ll help to shape the future of other wheat farmers, too. The Hallock, Minn., farmer is the new president of the National Association of Wheat Growers.
By Jonathan Knutson , April 02, 2012
Early start
FISHER, Minn. — Mike Bergeron beat the calendar, planting spring wheat in the last days of winter, nearly a month before he usually does such seeding.
By Stephen J. Lee , March 20, 2012
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