Yields ‘best ever’ at western Minnesota farm

Janelle Atyeo
Nov 2, 2026
10 hrs ago

Beet harvest — The sun lights the sky behind a tractor set up for beet harvest. Horsager completed sugar beet harvest Oct. 21 with good tonnage but low sugar content.
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Janelle Atyeo

Harvest is a warp, and yields were some of the best Megan Horsager has ever seen on her Montevideo, Minnesota, farm.

Corn harvest wrapped up Oct. 24 for Horsager and her family.
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Megan Horsager and kids — Megan Horsager poses in the tractor cab with her kids, Peter and Helen, near the end of a busy harvest season.
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Megan Horsager grows sugar beets, corn, soybeans and alfalfa with her dad at Stevens Farms northeast of Montevideo, Minnesota. She’s involved with Minnesota Farm Bureau as chairwoman on the Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee and completed the Minnesota Agriculture and Rural Leadership program in 2024.