With our sugar consumption likely to rise with Halloween candy piling up, we look at the history of sugar and why California’s last sugar beet plant is leaving the state. Go beyond burgers with this ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho — Doug Evans likes the looks of his beets and those that other farmers in his region produced. In the relatively high-altitude growing area, word was that sugar content “started off a ...

The first beet-to-ethanol pilot plant in the nation recently was announced for construction in California. Meanwhile, North Dakota researchers are moving forward on studies to determine if a similar ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) -For years, sugar beets were a lifeline for American farmers. More than half of domestically produced sugar comes from the white-fleshed root crops, and robust demand from the ...

The European Union (EU) is expected to have a shortfall of 785,000 tonnes of sugar (white value) in the new season that starts in October as plants - many of which were converted back to oil from gas ...

BRAWLEY, CALIF. — The Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative (SMBSC) said it will be decommissioning of its Brawley, Calif., sugar beet facility that operates under its subsidiary, Spreckels Sugar ...

The sugarbeet slicing and processing campaigns at factories in Minnesota and North Dakota are progressing well, sugarbeet company agriculture managers said. American Crystal Sugar Co., based in ...

Editor’s note: This column has been edited to correct the name of the Western Sugar Cooperative. Dear Johnnie: Can you please tell us where the loaded sugar beets are going in the morning and after ...

AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho — Tyson Funk finished planting sugar beets April 20, 10-to-14 days ahead of the long-term average for his area. “The guys wanted to get done as much as I did,” he said. Donovan ...

Matt Helmreich, left inside the harvester, of Helmreich Farms in Bay County, harvests sugar beets Tuesday with Michael Gavin, president of Delta College. (Photo courtesy of Michigan Sugar Co. via ...

Ukraine's major white sugar producer, Astarta, has completed the 2021 sugar beet processing, making 266,000 tonnes of white sugar, the company said on Thursday. KYIV, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Ukraine's ...