Sugar beet processing continues a tradition more than a century old in the Magic Valley, with Amalgamated Sugar employing 3,000 people across Idaho and processing close to 6,000 tons of beets daily at ...

A century ago, Colorado’s economy depended upon the sugar beet, a white root vegetable related to red table beets. At the peak of Colorado's sugar rush, as many as twenty-four refineries around the ...

Demand for sugar, a $3.1 billion industry for Minnesota, is down, and farmers see a direct connection with the MAHA movement.

A Fargo-based energy company is moving forward with plans for the nation's first-ever beet ethanol plant - the first step in an ambitious plan to turn one of the Red River Valley's top crops into a ...

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 ...

When the term “vulgaris” forms the second half of the given Latin name of a plant, as it very often does, we understandably might think it gives a negative connotation. But “vulgaris” merely means ...