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STAFF BLOG AG RIGHT 'Super-busy' harvest
Early October has brought beautiful weather (so far) to the Upper Midwest, and area farmers are taking advantage. The harvest of remaining crops -- mainly soybeans, corn, sugar beets, potatoes and sun...
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UPDATED: Patrol identifies driver airlifted after SUV crashes into sugar beet truck 
Authorities have identified the driver who was airlifted to Fargo after his SUV collided head-on with a truck hauling sugar beets early this morning near Hunter.
By Mike Nowatzki , September 27, 2011
Report pushes corn prices up
As they finish up the small grains harvest, farmers in North Dakota are set to harvest more corn but fewer soybeans than last year.
By Stephen J. Lee , September 12, 2011
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Susie Anderson, Grand Forks, letter: Name-calling at gate of beet plant must stop
We do a job at the sugar-beet processing facility that takes about a an hour or so each time we go.
And going through the facility’s gates and getting the verbal abuse we get is unreal.
By Susie Anderson , September 03, 2011
Gary Jordheim, Thompson, N.D., letter: Time for farmers to end the lockout
The American people have supported the American sugar beet farmer. In return, the farmers should do the decent thing and the right thing, which is to open the gates and put these people back to work.
By Gary Jordheim , September 03, 2011
VIEWPOINT: It’s all about risk, sugar beet farmer says
As a fourth-generation beet farmer and also as a shareholder in American Crystal Sugar, I think that it is necessary to understand the investment that farmers have made in our cooperative and also the risk that all farmers face when they put a crop in the ground each spring.
By Bruce Driscoll , August 31, 2011
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VIEWPOINT: For the valley’s sake, get back to the bargaining table
"As harvest approaches, it is time for the growers and management to discuss whether continuing this lockout is in the industry’s or the valley’s best interest," U.S. Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota writes in the Viewpoint. "It may not be worth the risk – to the community or to the survival of the sugar program."
By U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. , August 24, 2011
Crystal to begin pre-pile lift Sept. 6
American Crystal Sugar Co. has announced to shareholders that they’ll start pre-pile harvest on Sept. 6 with beet slicing, or processing starting in all of its five factories. In the southern Red River Valley, Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative at Wahpeton will start harvest Sept. 21-22, and will start slicing at its single factory on Sept. 23.
By Mikkel Pates , August 23, 2011
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USDA: Minnesota's corn, soybean, beet crops expected to be smaller than '10; beets down 12 percent
The forecasts were released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By Associated Press , August 11, 2011
VIEWPOINT: Sugar beet growers should tell American Crystal to end lockout
Whatever Chief Operating Officer Joseph J. Talley’s motives are in locking out American Crystal’s own employees, the ultimate authority at American Crystal Sugar is the sugar beet growers themselves.
By Mark Schneider , August 08, 2011
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Jeff Schweitzer, American Crystal, letter: Commentary contains 'large inaccuracies'
By Jeff Schweitzer , August 02, 2011
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- Union president statement: 'We're not asking for much'
COMMENTARY: In context of protective tariffs, American Crystal's lockout raises eyebrows
"You can fault American Crystal's workers for being out of touch with reality...," Star Tribune columnist Eric Wieffering writes. "But you also have to fault American Crystal for insisting on seniority language that it knew the union would never accept."
By Eric Wieffering , August 02, 2011
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- LOCKOUT: Few hundred non-union workers to help continue American Crystal operations, company says
- 'IT'S THE REST OF IT': American Crystal union workers say job security biggest issue
- LOCKOUT: American Crystal Sugar union workers picket
- Union president statement: 'We're not asking for much'
- Brian Ingulsrud, Moorhead, column: American Crystal explains its contract offer
Is Crystal Sugar heading for labor impasse Aug. 1?
Is American Crystal Sugar Co. headed for a lockout with its 1,300 union employees on Aug. 1? Or will the last-minute brinksmanship end in an agreement? It’s too soon to say, but union officials say time is running short to replace the co-op’s seven-year labor contract.
By Mikkel Pates , July 24, 2011
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Delayed planting could lower yields, push back harvest
A wet spring and muddy fields have slowed planting for farmers in the Red River Valley and beyond. Last weekend’s rainstorms could make matters even worse, as later plantings could lead to lower yields and a delayed harvest.
June 01, 2011
Sugar beet crop escapes real damage from a.m. freeze
Despite temperatures that went down as low as 27 degrees in some parts of the northern Red River Valley before dawn Thursday, no real damage was done to the high-value and late-planted sugar beet crop.
By Stephen J. Lee , May 26, 2011
Farm fields far from dry
Fieldwork start pushed back againA low and gray sky dropped rain and perhaps some spirits across the region Wednesday, dampening even more plans of farmers to get going in the fields in what is the latest spring planting in about two decades.
By Stephen J. Lee , May 04, 2011
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