Editor’s Note: When it comes to sugarbeet defoliators and harvesters, no one gets more feedback – and likewise is more familiar with the machines – than their manufacturer. That was the premise behind ...

FARGO, N.D. — If you're running equipment from the 1960s — a not unheard of thing on farms — you're going to have some breakdowns. And when you do, finding parts might be tough. Tom Peters, Extension ...

MURDOCK - It's a warm fall morning that followed enough rain to make fields slimy and prone to deep tractor-tire ruts, but a bright yellow behemoth of a machine is having no trouble gliding across a ...

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Advances in technology have drastically changed the way the sugar beet is planted, grown, harvested and the beet itself. Beets now don’t have to be thinned, a labor-intensive job done by hand years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the hi-tech Vervaet sugar beet harvesters at work during the J Riley demonstration day at Barton Bendish (Image: Denise ...