Tag: beet harvest
Clay County farmer marks 70 years of harvesting beets in ND
Clay County farmer marks 70 years of harvesting beets in ND By The Dickinson Press Robin Huebner on Oct 20, 2018 at 8:00 a.m. GEORGETOWN, Minn. — In 1948, at age 18, Herb Dahlsad got his first taste of the sugar beet harvest while helping a neighbor near his family’s farmstead here. Now 88, he’s … Read More
Memories You Just Can’t Beet
Memories You Just Can’t Beet By: Megan Dotson, RoundupWeb.com October 19, 2016 Sidney, MT – Having been born and raised in Richland County, agriculture has had a lasting impression on me, and still does. As a child, my mom and grandma leased their land to wheat farmers, but it was beet farming that I really … Read More
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Necessity is the Mother of Invention By Stuart Reitz, The Argus Observer October 9, 2016 The sugar beet harvest campaign will be cranking up here shortly. In fact, you may be seeing trucks hauling loads of beets down from our neighbors to the north, around La Grande and the Columbia Basin. Sugar beets are undoubtedly … Read More
Sugar Beets: A Classic Case of ‘Good News, Bad News’
Sugar Beets: A Classic Case of ‘Good News, Bad News’ By Dave Bonner, Powell Tribune (WY) Sept. 23, 2016 The headlines vary widely. On one hand, the 2016 sugar beet crop in the Lovell factory district of Western Sugar Cooperative is on track to post another strong showing. Officials look for a yield averaging 28.9 … Read More
When Things Speak: The Beet Knife
Posted May 2nd, 2015 by NET In the 1870s, thousands of Germans from Russia left Russia for the United States. By 1910, the US census counted 13,000 Germans from Russia in Nebraska alone. Diane Wilson says these new immigrants started transitioning to American life by continuing a lot of their own traditions, especially when it came … Read More