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 ...

BLACKFOOT, Idaho — Doug Evans likes the looks of his beets and those that other farmers in his region produced. In the relatively high-altitude growing area, word was that sugar content “started off a ...

Sugar beet growers are warning of a deepening financial squeeze as rising fuel and fertiliser costs collide with weak global ...

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 ...

Billionaire Issad Rebrab's Cevital has unveiled a $600 million investment aimed at reviving large-scale sugar beet production ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This column has been edited to correct the name of the Western Sugar Cooperative. Dear Johnnie: Can you please tell us where the loaded sugar beets are going in the morning and after ...

A return of Ireland's sugar beet processing industry is unlikely, the agriculture minister has said. Martin Heydon was speaking as the Government announced a scheme to establish up to four new flour ...