Fall signals several things when you’ve been raised in a rural Montana valley – back to school and beet harvest. Every year since the homesteaders staked their claim to 160 acres of hardscrabble clay and sagebrush, with the help of…
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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…
Federal aid sought by sugar beet growers
by Evelyn Pyburn BILLINGS — Early cold weather devastated what was anticipated to be a record year for sugar beet production in Yellowstone County and Tuesday, county commissioners approved a request to apply for disaster designation for the county. If…
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…
