MURDOCK, Minn. - 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 ...

HARDIN — On his second lap around his sugar beet field south of the Crow cutoff, Brett Nedens looked up from his harvester’s controls and realized he was again being followed. Two men in a white Ford ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vervaet has updated its four-wheel Q-616 beet harvester, with a fresh cab, slicker hydraulics and new break-back protection for the shares. With supplies of the old Claas X10 cockpit exhausted, the ...

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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FREELAND, MI - Matt Helmreich, 26, has been harvesting sugar beets since he was 16. A decade ago, Helmreich and his brother, Mark, and father, Ron, were using older-style equipment that's still in use ...

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 ...