Tag: Western Sugar Cooperative

Beet Harvest Time and Memories

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…

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…