ABERDEEN, Idaho — Jordan Johns’ sugar beet crop looks good and is about 10 days ahead of its normal maturation schedule. “We have had the right amount of heat units” and “it cools down at night, so it ...

Nebraska sugarbeet farmer Allan Thorson restored a 1957 International Harvester one-row beet digger similar to what his family used in the 1950s and '60s. He used it on two acres of his 2024 harvest.

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 ...