Articles tagged under: Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative
Minn-Dak Pre-Pile Harvest Starts Next Week
Published August 22, 2022
Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative Vice President of Agriculture Mike Metzger says pre-pile harvest is scheduled for August 29. "We're making red x's on the calendar. The one that's circled in red is August 29, when we'll get a few beets out…Minn-Dak Adopts New Strategy to Address Driver Shortages
Published May 30, 2022
To address the truck driver shortage, Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative is adding a new self-driving truck to haul sugarbeets from the piling station to the factory. Vice President of Agriculture Mike Metzger says this will be a leader-follower type system. "There…Driverless Technology to be Deployed During Beet Campaign
Published May 20, 2022
In reaction to the truck driver shortage, Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative is launching self-driving trucks. Minn-Dak is working with a defense contractor, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, for short-haul trucking between the piling stations and the processing plant. Minn-Dak will retrofit…A Different Form of Sugarbeet Root Maggot Control
Published May 6, 2022
With the chlorpyrifos ban in place, sugarbeet growers will use different products to control the sugarbeet root maggot this year. Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative Vice President of Agriculture Mike Metzger says there are several pockets of sugarbeet root maggots in the…Minn-Dak Recaps ’21 Campaign
Published December 13, 2021
The Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative forecast an initial net payment of $44 per ton for the 2021 sugarbeet crop. That’s 15 percent higher than the final payment of last year. The crop averaged just over 31 tons per acre with a…DOJ Challenges Sugar Industry Merger
Published November 29, 2021
The U.S. Justice Department is challenging United Sugar’s proposed acquisition of Imperial Sugar Company, citing antitrust concerns. Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter said this merger would eliminate “aggressive competition” in the refined sugar industry. United Sugar is a marketing cooperative…Minn-Dak Farmers Co-op Getting Final Sugarbeet Acres to the Pile
Published November 3, 2021
In a statement, Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative Vice President of Agriculture Mike Metzger says the co-op is 98 percent finished with sugarbeet harvest as of Wednesday, November 3. Growers are trying to get the final acres in the pile.Sugarbeet Harvest Keeps Moving Forward for Minn-Dak Growers
Published October 15, 2021
Sugarbeet growers in the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative growing area got a late start to the full harvest, due to the warmer than usual conditions. Wyndmere farmer Carson Klosterman started lifting sugarbeets last Monday. "We harvested sugarbeets on lighter ground and…Sugarbeet Harvest Expected to Begin on Sunday
Published October 7, 2021
American Crystal Sugar Company is expecting to start their full sugarbeet harvest campaign on Sunday. Based in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, Senior Agriculturalist Bob Joerger says the full campaign would start in the evening. "We have to get the root…