ITS a giant. With a 500hp Deutz power plant, hydrostatic drive to six wheels on three axles and a gross weight of 54t, the Vervaet Beet Eater must count as the daddy of all sugar beet harvesters. The ...

Sugar beet harvest is under way. Mike Abram finds out how to set up harvesters to minimise losses. Every tonne of beet is being paid for by British Sugar at the full contract price this season, and ...

MURDOCK, Minn. - It's a warm fall morning that followed enough rain to make fields slimy and prone to deep tractor-tire ruts, but a bright yellow behemoth of a machine is having no trouble gliding ...

FARGO, N.D. -- Will Red River Valley area sugar beet farmers change from the familiar pull-behind sugar beet harvesters to self-propelled machines? Four manufacturers are hoping so, as they talked up ...