Zack Clark, vice president of government affairs for the American Sugar Beet Growers Association, spoke at the annual International Sugar Beet Institute in Fargo on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Zack ...

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 ...

Detroit, MI - January 26, 2025 - Pioneer Sugar, a Michigan-based, farmer-owned cooperative producing 100% U.S.-grown ...

CROOKSTON, Minn. -- It's been six years since Allan Dragseth and neighbor Roger Odegaard decided to take the lead on getting the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Museum up and running. Since then, they have ...

FARGO, N.D. -- As U.S. sugar beet growers face increasing political fights about things such as genetically modified organisms in beet seed, they're raising the profile of their staunchest allies -- ...

Federal farm policy is lagging rising challenges in the field, according to several participants in the American Sugar Alliance’s recent grower fly-in to Washington, D.C. “With farm country facing ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — An eastern Montana sugar beet refinery is shutting down production after nearly a century in business. The Billings Gazette reported the factory in Sidney will close in April due to ...

FARGO — The full stockpile harvest is officially open across the Fargo area for sugar beet farmers. The early planting season, with flooding and followed by a record dry fall, has kept farmers on ...

I’m a Washington state sugar beet farmer. You might not have ever heard of a sugar beet, but you likely rely on sugar beets several times a day. American-grown sugar beets and sugar cane are the two ...

WAHPETON, N.D. - Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative sugar beet growers are struggling financially this year, despite producing a record tonnage in 2016 that was offset by low sugar content and low sugar ...

The 2025-26 sugar beet lifting campaign is drawing to a close, with frost insurance triggered, yields sharply divided and ...

The latest hi-tech sugar beet harvesters were put to the test at Barton Bendish in Norfolk as farmers gathered for J Riley Beet Harvesters' 2026 working demonstration day.