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. The last sugar beat factory ...

Fall. The sun is setting earlier, the air has that crisp, earthy smell, and the garden seems quieter than usual. But beneath ...

CHICAGO, Oct 8 (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 ...

WHEATON, MINN. – Sitting in a pickup rolling up to a sugar beet field on the southern edge of the Red River Valley, farmer Jamie Beyer wants to talk MAHA. But she doesn’t know if her neighbors do. At ...

A farmer says he will stop growing sugar beet after 25 years due to declining profits, complex contracts and increasingly unpredictable weather. David Wheatley, 47, who farms near Wisbech St Mary, ...

David Wheatley, a tenant farmer, says he would earn more by leaving his field empty A farmer says he will stop growing sugar beet after 25 years due to declining profits, complex contracts and ...

One of Montana's two sugar beet refineries is closing after nearly a century of operation. American Crystal Sugar announced Monday that it will begin shuttering its operations in Sidney in April. The ...

America’s sugar beet farmers, long reliant on the robust demand for their crops, are facing an unprecedented crisis as domestic consumption plummets and stockpiles balloon. For years, these ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Harvest season is heating up in the Red River Valley, making traffic on area roads much busier with the addition of farm equipment. With a busy season ahead, local ...