TAMPA, Fla. — Hearing that crisp snap as the roots separate and a fresh radish is plucked from carefully cultivated soil is a sound farm manager Kaitlin Davis doesn't tire of hearing. “Right now, I'm ...

NEW YORK, Oct 29 (Reuters) - America's sugar beet growers are under siege as U.S. food companies increasingly shun genetically modified (GMO) crops. In the past seven years, the farmers - many in ...

CROOKSTON, Minn. — Fifty years after American Crystal Sugar was bought by farmers, a small group gathered in the Gold Link Senior Center in Crookston to learn not only the company’s history but the ...

Starring in two hot novels in the past six months suggests that the Minnesota vegetable is on a hot streak. Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red” was set in a town dependent on beets, with a prominent ...

Lately, Tony, Gio and I have found ourselves getting lost on the prairie at our friends' farmstead just south of Casselton, N.D. Greg and Lisa Cook, of Fargo, purchased the farm a year ago with a ...

OSLO, Minn. -- Every October, Ryan Scott moonlights from his day job in Grand Forks to work an eight-hour night shift hauling sugar beets for friends from their farm to giant piling sites during the ...

EAST GRAND FORKS -- As a fourth-generation beet farmer and also as a shareholder in American Crystal Sugar, I think that it is necessary to understand the investment that farmers have made in our ...