In a successful sugarbeet operation, every phase of the production season is important — but none more so than a strong start and a strong finish. Brothers Clint and Brad Hagen know that as well as ...

THESE photos – researched by Connacht Tribune staff photographer, JOE O’SHAUGNESSY – capture the spirit of the beet ...

EDGAR — The Wetstein brothers were pretty beat down. The gummy soil on their Edgar farm had broken their sugar beet digger and the replacement parts would have to be custom made. With rain and ...

Back in mid-November, just as the 2013 farming season was concluding, four sugarbeet growers — Kelly Erickson, Rick Gerstenberger, Galen Lee and John Snyder — traveled from their homes in Minnesota, ...