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. Opa! It’s the Oakland Greek ...

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 ...

(Editor's note: American Crystal Sugar on Feb. 6, 2023, announced it is closing the Sidney Sugars processing plant in Sidney, Montana. The Montana-Dakota Beet Growers Association Board, which has ...

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 ...

NAMPA — It is officially fall, and that means a trickle of trucks hauling sugarbeets into the Amalgamated Sugar factory facility in Nampa. The beets are harvested in the fall and are processed into ...

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 ...

LOVELL — Growers in the Western Sugar Cooperative Lovell Factory District are producing a bumper crop, and the factory is humming as the fall campaign begins, factory manager Shannon Ellis reported at ...

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 ...

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 ...