Harvey Andel was working the Galchutt beet piler like he has for nearly 50 years when he went into cardiac arrest. Truck drivers hauling beets came to his rescue. Harvey Andel, center, is surrounded ...

How Michigan Sugar Company Utilizes Cleaner/Loading Machines & Stacker Pilers By Keith Kalso* Michigan Sugar Company and several of its growers have, for the past decade, utilized the sugarbeet field ...

The 2011 sugarbeet harvest marked the second year of an innovative — and successful — beet loading and storage project involving growers and staff of Michigan Sugar Company. In this project, which has ...

WILKIN COUNTY, Minn. (Valley News Live) - Hundreds of feet of cable have been stolen from a beet piler in Wilkin County, Minnesota. On Monday, September 18, the Wilkin County Sheriff’s Office ...

A new kind of hobo is helping harvest the sugar beet crop in the Red River Valley. Lately, however, they have been more hoping than helping, stymied by the warm then wet weather that has delayed ...

POWELL - The first loads of sugar beets for 2007 began arriving at the Powell beet dump off Road 10 and U.S. 14-A earlier this month. At first glance, it seems to be a pretty simple process: trucks ...

PARK RIVER, N.D. - Bernie Kringstad is going to be looking for a place to plant a quaking aspen tree. He'll undoubtedly look for a small plot of land that will allow the tree to establish a healthy ...

Oct. 12—KITTSON COUNTY, Minn. — On Wednesday, Oct. 11, a Laporte, Minnesota, man died from injuries he sustained two days earlier when he was run over by a sugar beet truck in Kittson County. Patrick ...

FELTON, Minn. — In the fields, it felt like fall. It was a picture-perfect harvest day. The beets were coming off by the truckload at Dahl Farms near Felton. Still supervising his sons and ...

The Great Western Railway was built specifically to serve the rail transportation needs of the Great Western Sugar Co. Its primary purpose was to haul freshly harvested sugar beets from the ...