RUPERT, Idaho — The primary thing that drives decisions on Luke and Sara Adams’ farm is sugar beets. The couple owns shares in the grower-owned Amalgamated Sugar Co., which allows them to grow a ...

Good crop ground cover will be key to managing herbicide costs in sugar beet this year, after dry conditions affected weed control programmes in 2025.

In its annual compliance report, the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative reported no violations while processing and storing one of its largest crops ever. Sugar beets are transferred from ...

PAUL, Idaho — Brian Kossman had helped out on his aunt and uncle’s farm in the summers growing up, but didn’t know a lot about farming until a two-week job digging sugar beets turned into full-time ...

TWIN FALLS — Not all sugar beet crops are created equal. Amalgamated Sugar Co.'s beet payment formula was developed in 1967 in response to a U.S. Department of Agriculture inquiry of what constituted ...

Most people sow forage radishes in the fall and allow the winter’s cold weather to terminate the crop without manual intervention. However, you can sow these as winter cover crops in February as long ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

With cool-season vegetable crops going into the ground, many gardeners who ventured into cover cropping last autumn may ask a familiar question: What do I do now? Their crops have fulfilled their ...

The annual sugar beet harvest is in full swing. Half of the sugar produced in the U.S. comes from beets, and about a quarter of the nation’s beets are grown in the West. A decade ago, Monsanto Company ...

MANKATO, Minn. — Implementing no-till farming and other conservation practices can be great for your farm’s soil health and overall environment. But many have concerns when it comes to the cost of ...