Zack Clark, vice president of government affairs for the American Sugar Beet Growers Association, spoke at the annual International Sugar Beet Institute in Fargo on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Zack ...

The British Sugar factory at Wissington, an eight-mile (13km) drive from Downham Market, is now dubbed "the largest and the ...

Farmers are hoping for a cool, wet spring to halt a three-year population explosion of a pest which has the potential to ...

EAST GRAND FORKS -- As a fourth-generation beet farmer and also as a shareholder in American Crystal Sugar, I think that it is necessary to understand the investment that farmers have made in our ...

EUCLID, Minn. - Paul Rutherford stared over his tilled fields of sugar beets, his gaze focused on hundreds of acres in the midst of harvest. As heavy machinery plucked beets from the ground, they ...

FARGO, N.D -- With planting less than a month away, a company hoping to contract with farmers in 2012 to convert sugar beets into ethanol at a defunct corn-based ethanol plant in Grafton, N.D., has ...

ARLINGTON, Virginia — Across 11 states farmers grow and harvest approximately 1.1 million acres of sugarbeets annually, which are then processed into sugar at 21 factories owned by nine different ...

Carmel "Chuck" Solano's childhood was everything but ordinary. "This is a picture of me, my mother, and my dad…I was 7 years old then," Solano told CBS Colorado. Using his hands and a short-hoe, ...

Sugar beet is a type of root vegetable that is grown primarily for sugar production. It belongs to the same family as the table beet, but it has higher sugar content, making it valuable for the ...

What we throw away as food waste may hold the key to healthier crops, stronger ecosystems, and new medical compounds.

Farming can be an uncertain endeavor, at the mercy of the weather, pests and blight. But another sometimes unexpected factor for farmers around the country are the business decisions at the companies ...