The last factory in California that turns sugar beets into sugar is shutting down after 78 years, according to the company that owns the factory. The closure means the elimination of hundreds of local ...

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 ...

Editor's note: Kathy Jordan died May 1, but true to her newspaper roots, she filed several columns ahead of deadline. We honor her life's work of preserving the community's history by publishing the ...

A factory that produces about 320,000 tonnes of sugar every year is marking its centenary. However, working life at the British Sugar factory in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, has undergone a significant ...

LOVELL - Talk about a sweet deal. The Western Sugar Cooperative sugar factory in Lovell makes nearly 90 million pounds of sugar each year, all from sugar beets grown in the northern Bighorn Basin. But ...

Even for a bunch of sugar beet farmers, the challenges of this year’s harvest are little bit sticky. For the first time in recent memory, the Western Sugar Cooperative will fire up its Billings ...

State regulators have fined American Crystal Sugar $350,000 over air pollution from its factory in East Grand Forks, Minn. The sugar beet processing plant, one of five the cooperative operates in the ...