Cooperative’s CEO & Prior President Talks About His Career in Sugar, Including Past & Current Challenges for Crystal & Beet Industry![]() Editor’s Note: David Berg has been an employee of American Crystal Sugar Company since 1987 and became the Moorhead, Minn.-based cooperative’s president and chief executive officer in 2007. Berg retires as of August 31. His successor, Tom Astrup, formerly Crystal’s vice president-operations, assumed the presidency in early March and will add the CEO title upon Berg’s retirement at the end of August. In this interview with The Sugar-beet Grower, David Berg talks about his route to the presidency of American Crystal, challenges faced and challenges met — and some of the accomplishments that have provided the greatest satisfaction for him through the years. Read our entire issue and back issues. Click here.
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During Harvest at Michigan’s D & B Karg Farms![]() Dennis and Brian Karg, father-son owners and operators of D & B Karg Farms* near Harbor Beach, Mich., have instituted some big changes in their sugarbeet harvest program during the past several years. Having changed from 30- to 22-inch rows in 2010, two years later they transitioned to a Ropa Tiger eight-row self-propelled harvester (Dozens of their fellow Michigan Sugar Company producers also have gone the self-propelled route.) For the 2015 harvest, they installed a combination rubber-steel defoliation drum on their Ropa —an important step, Brian says, toward eliminating the need for scalpers. Last year’s harvest also found the Kargs utilizing a new 4600 Series Crop Shuttle cart manufactured by Kringstad Ironworks of Park River, N.D. The 46-ton unit, which can unload in about three minutes, usually allows the Kargs to keep up pace with their Ropa harvester with a single cart instead of two. Read our entire issue and back issues. Click here. Comments from ASGA President Galen Lee |
Mike SpiekerEditor & General Manager of The Sugarbeet Grower Archives
March 2020
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