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 ...

CROOKSTON, Minn. — Fifty years after American Crystal Sugar was bought by farmers, a small group gathered in the Gold Link Senior Center in Crookston to learn not only the company’s history, but the ...

Lining the shelves of the bakery aisle in your local grocery store are bags upon bags of sugar. Whether it’s brown sugar, granulated sugar, or powdered sugar, the sweet stuff is a vital part of baking ...

Consumers are increasingly scrutinizing sugar types, comparing cane and beet sugar due to health and ethical concerns. While ...

The sugarbeet slicing and processing campaigns at factories in Minnesota and North Dakota are progressing well, sugarbeet company agriculture managers said. American Crystal Sugar Co., based in ...

Matt Helmreich, left inside the harvester, of Helmreich Farms in Bay County, harvests sugar beets Tuesday with Michael Gavin, president of Delta College. (Photo courtesy of Michigan Sugar Co. via ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho — Doug Evans likes the looks of his beets and those that other farmers in his region produced. In the relatively high-altitude growing area, word was that sugar content “started off a ...