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 ...

The first beet-to-ethanol pilot plant in the nation recently was announced for construction in California. Meanwhile, North Dakota researchers are moving forward on studies to determine if a similar ...

According to Russian sugar industry association "Soyuzrossakhar", as of January 21 there were 5 refinery plants, which continued processing of sugar beet. Since the start of the year the plants have ...

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 ...

OLIVIA — The Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative harvested a near-record crop in 2020, and with it came plenty of challenges. With a large crop to store for processing, and a warmer than normal ...

Sugar beets in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota have held up relatively well this hot, dry summer, but many fields are short of moisture even after recent rainfall, ...