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 ...

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 ...

FARGO, N.D. — After a five -year program to upgrade its sugarbeet processing plant, the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative will need to grow more beets, company officials say. The Minn-Dak co-op observed ...

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 ...

As the piles grow at the sugar beet processing plants around the region, growers are facing looming deadlines complicated by federal shutdowns. Colorado Sen. Byron Pelton said a number of growers — as ...