DES MOINES — A federal judge in California has ordered the removal from the ground of plants grown to produce seeds for genetically modified sugar beets, citing the potential for environmental harm.

A factory that produces about 320,000 tonnes of sugar every year is marking its centenary. However, working life at the ...

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 ...

DANUBE, Minn. (AP) -- Steve Kuiken and 220 other union employees at the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative in nearby Renville are out of work, locked out of the plant by their employer for more ...

The reed leafhopper (Pentastiridius leporinus) was originally a specialist, limited exclusively to reed grass as a food ...

MOSES LAKE -- A $100 million sugar beet processing plant will not operate this year because of low sugar prices and high costs of natural gas, officials said yesterday. Pacific Northwest Sugar Co.

Sugarbeet Flashback: Spreckels' New Arizona Plant in Middle of First ‘Campaign’ This week we turn the page back 54 years to the summer 1967 edition of The Sugarbeet Grower magazine, featuring that ...

The Sugarbeet Flashback is a regular section in The Sugarbeet Grower magazine. In this edition, we take a look back 50 years to May 1971. A sketch of the proposed building for the Red River Valley ...

Sugar beets are planted on more than 1 million acres in 10 states, with Minnesota, North Dakota and Idaho being the top producers. The judge said the USDA failed to conduct the environmental review he ...