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 ...

BRAWLEY – The last Spreckels Sugar Company processing plant in California is scheduled to shut down by the end of this year or early 2026, nearly 25 years after the Woodland sugar beet facility closed ...

Processing potatoes and sugar beet en masse, agricultural cooperative Royal Cosun is able to use these crops as plant-based ingredients. The ‘protein transition’, the switch many believe that we (the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week on AgweekTV, it's the sweetest time of the year — sugarbeet harvest is underway. How can farmers be more profitable? We'll take a look at some practices you can incorporate now for better ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An American Crystal sugar beet processing plant runs during the beet harvest Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. Photo by Nicole ...

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 ...