News

10/15/09American Crystal halts beet harvest Tuesday

By: Stephen J. Lee, Grand Forks Herald, INFORUM

MOORHEAD - American Crystal Sugar Co. halted its sugar beet harvest Tuesday ... read more »


10/12/09Photographic hobby reflects love of hometown

by Jennifer Johnson • Daily News, Wahpeton, ND

Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative Communications Manager Chris DeVries has been a novice photo ... read more »


10/09/09Judge’s ruling forces second look at Roundup Ready Sugarbeets

By DALE HILDEBRANT, Farm & Ranch Guide

For the second time in two years, a ruling by a U.S. district judge based in San Francisco has thr ... read more »


10/07/09Heavy rains give harvest a beeting

By: Jon Knutson, INFORUM, Farg ... read more »


10/06/09Rain slows beet harvest

By: staff report, Grand Forks Herald

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Wet weather has slowed the sugar beet harvest in parts of North Dak ... read more »


09/30/09Valley beet harvest began at midnight Tuesday, Sept 29

INFORUM, Fargo Forum, Sept 30

After a month of preliminary digging, the American Crystal Sugar Co. beet harvest began full tilt at midnight T ... read more »


09/24/09Statements by the Sugar Industry Biotech Council on US District Court Decision

On September 21, 2009, U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will have to complete an Enviro ... read more »


09/23/09Judge overturns government approval of "Roundup Ready" sugar beets

By Jeff Barnard, AP Environmental WriterCrookston Daily TimesGrants Pass, Ore. -GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A federal ju ... read more »


09/14/09Montana sugar beet growers report sweet season; profits are at 28-year high

By: Staff Writer, The Missoulian

BILLINGS - Sugar beet growers in Montana say they ... read more »


09/14/09Idaho 2009 Sugarbeet Production Up

By: Weekly Ag Staff Writer, AgWeekly

Idaho’s 2009 sugarbeet production is forecas ... read more »


09/14/09State sugar-beet harvest starting up

By: Staff Writer, [L=http://www.greatfallstribune.com/[The Great Falls Tribune[EL]

The Western Sugar Cooperative expects to process more than ... read more »


09/14/09Bumper Crop of Sugar Beets

By: Brad Devereaux, [L=http://lovellchronicle.com/[The Lovell Chronicle[EL]

With the start of the sugar beet harvest about a week away, farme ... read more »


09/14/09Montana growers expect above average beet harvest

By: Tom Lutey, [L=http://billingsgazette.com/[The Billings Gazette[EL]

With profits at a 28-year high and a bumper crop in the ground, Montan ... read more »


09/14/09Michigan Sugar Co. expects 3.7M ton beet harvest

By: Associated Press, [L=http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/[The Connection Mid Michigan[EL]

MONITOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - The sweetest time ... read more »


09/10/09Red River Valley Sugarbeet Museum Harvest Festival to recognize Green family

By: Matt Bewley, AgWeekly

The Red River Valley Sugarbeet Museum in Crookston, Minn., has announced that they will be honoring several generat ... read more »


09/09/09Sugar beet ‘prepile’ harvest started

By: Associated Press, The Jamestown News

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09/08/09Sugar beets fetch sweet price

By: Paul Morden, The Observer

Lambton County's sugar beet growers can expect high ... read more »


09/08/09Michigan Sugar Co. is ready for the fall beet harvest

By: Kathryn Lynch-Morin, The Bay City Times

For many farmers in the Great La ... read more »


09/01/09U.S. Sugar Supply Is Adequate as Harvests Near, Imperial Says

By: Yi Tian, Bloomberg.com

U.S. sugar supplies are adequate this year, and the approac ... read more »


09/01/09Sugar Beet 'Prepile' Harvest Getting Under Way

By: Associated Press, WWCO

GRAND FORKS, N.D. ... read more »


09/01/09In letter to ag secretary, companies claimed that supply was dwindling

By: Tom Lutey, Billings Gazette

With hysteria mounting over ... read more »


06/04/09Starbucks dumping high fructose corn sweetener

By: Rosie Mestel, LA Times Blogs

Starbucks, according to an article from ... read more »


06/04/09Brighter outlook for sugar beet industry

By: Ken Anderson, The Brown Field Network

The outlook for sugar beet gr ... read more »


01/27/09Sugar Producers Applaud Vilsack Confirmation

By: Philip Hayes, Sugar Alliance 

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate yesterday vote ... read more »


01/20/09Sugar beet producers won ground in 2008

By: Carol Ryan Dumas, Ag Weekly editor, Ag Weekly Online 

TWIN FALLS, Idaho - It w ... read more »


12/09/08U.S. subsidy programs are harming domestic sugar producers

By: Pembroke Rathbone, The Idaho Statesman 

Everyone harps about farm subsid ... read more »


12/02/08Great Western Sugar Co. helped Windsor grow and prosper

By: Staff Writer, The Coloradoan 

Windsor has had a very “sweet” pas ... read more »


11/13/08Bumper beet crop has farmers seeing green

By: Tom Lutey, The Billings Gazette

Ask beet farmers to identify the l ... read more »