Photos: Harvesting sugar beets in the Red River Valley

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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