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 ...

GRAND FORKS -- Most of American Crystal Sugar Co.’s factories apparently will wind up their slicing campaigns by early March. That’s two and a half months earlier than the company’s average finish ...

A record sugar beet harvest likely will keep Michigan Sugar processing plants working until the end of March. Keith Kalso, agricultural manager for Michigan Sugar Co. at the Croswell facility, said ...

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OLIVIA — The Renville County Drainage Authority is willing to allow the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative to discharge a greater volume of water into County Ditch 45 during its beet processing ...

The process of farming and refining sugar beet in Britain hasn't changed much, but the power and the machinery behind it have. In 1925, a fledgling sugar factory in Norfolk managed to process 600 ...

American Crystal Sugar Co.'s beet harvest remains on hold, since being stopped Oct. 2 because the temperatures were too high for beets to store well in the huge stockpiles set up around the region for ...

This fall's sugar beet harvest is the worst in decades in northwestern Minnesota and North Dakota, another blow in a difficult year for American farmers and one that is quickly rippling through the ...