Tag: sugar beets

Barley over sugar beets

HUNTLEY – Ron Hein of Worden drills Coors Barley seed into “disced up sugar beets.” Farmers were unable to harvest many acres of sugar beets last fall due to wet fields and cold weather. Hein said, because of the remaining…

Sugar beet harvest ends with hopes of disaster relief

by Robert Nolte  HUNTLEY – This year’s sugar beet harvest is over and losses could top $5 million in the county, according to some estimates. Butch Ewen, a Project beet grower and member of the Montana States Growers Association board…