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North Dakota sugar refiner delays beet pre-pile harvest.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2004

By Mikkel Pates, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 1--MOORHEAD, N.D. -- American Crystal Sugar Co.'s pre-pile sugar beet harvest will be among the latest in the past 10 years, officials say.

The "pre-pile" harvest usually starts in the first week of September, but this year will start Sept. 13, company officials told growers Monday.

Pre-pile harvest is a time for starting up factories but not stockpiling beets in storage piles that must last through the winter and through the "slice campaign."

Shareholder-growers harvest a small percentage of their beets during the period, using the phase to open fields for the full-scale harvest -- a round-the-clock, intense operation, which still is scheduled...

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