With our sugar consumption likely to rise with Halloween candy piling up, we look at the history of sugar and why ...

Beets are used to make more than half the sugar in the U.S., filling most baking cupboards and sweetening a majority of ...

Even for a bunch of sugar beet farmers, the challenges of this year’s harvest are little bit sticky. For the first time in recent memory, the Western Sugar Cooperative will fire up its Billings ...

Unlike a national report that blames weight loss drugs, like Ozempic and Wegovy, for plunging sugar prices, Wyoming farmers ...

California growers Jason and Ralph Taylor set sugar record on a 130-acre sugarbeet field. But the future is blurry for ...

Editor's note: Kathy Jordan died May 1, but true to her newspaper roots, she filed several columns ahead of deadline. We honor her life's work of preserving the community's history by publishing the ...

It is sugar beet harvest season in Colorado and if the more scenic portions of the state are known for the Rocky Mountains, this portion of the state ought to be known for the mountains of corn silage ...

LOVELL - Talk about a sweet deal. The Western Sugar Cooperative sugar factory in Lovell makes nearly 90 million pounds of sugar each year, all from sugar beets grown in the northern Bighorn Basin. But ...

(Editor's note: American Crystal Sugar on Feb. 6, 2023, announced it is closing the Sidney Sugars processing plant in Sidney, Montana. The Montana-Dakota Beet Growers Association Board, which has ...

The Glenmaggie Weir was built 100 years ago to supply water to sugar beet farmers, and now keeps local dairy farms going.

British Sugar's oldest factory at Cantley in Norfolk opened its gates for beet deliveries this week as it kicks off its 2025/26 campaign ...

State regulators have fined American Crystal Sugar $350,000 over air pollution from its factory in East Grand Forks, Minn. The sugar beet processing plant, one of five the cooperative operates in the ...