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Nathaniel Minor

Photos: Harvesting sugar beets in the Red River Valley

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Sugar beet rows
Sugar beet rows on David Kragnes' farm outside of Moorhead, Minn. on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. First, the green leaves are cut off the top of the sugar beet. The rows at left are unharvested; the rows in the middle have been 'topped.'
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Truck leaves field
A truck carrying harvested sugar beets from David Kragnes' farm heads toward the American Crystal Sugar processing plant in Moorhead. Over two weeks this fall, about 900 million tons of beets will be hauled to factories in the Red River Valley where they're washed, sliced and cooked to extract the sugar.
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Sugar beet rows
Sugar beet rows on David Kragnes' farm outside of Moorhead, Minn. on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. First, the green leaves are cut off the top of the sugar beet. The rows at left are unharvested; the rows in the middle have been 'topped.'
MPR Photo/Nathaniel Minor) (Read the story
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Sugar beet topper
David Kragnes' wife Peggy operates a sugar beet topper.
MPR Photo/Nathaniel Minor) (Read the story