WYNDMERE, N.D. – Carson Klosterman, his dad, Tom, and employees were out in the sugarbeet fields on Friday, Aug. 22, digging up beets and hauling them to the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative factory for the annual pre-harvest.
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