Lining the shelves of the bakery aisle in your local grocery store are bags upon bags of sugar. Whether it’s brown sugar, granulated sugar, or powdered sugar, the sweet stuff is a vital part of baking ...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) —Sugar beet processing continues a tradition more than a century old in the Magic Valley, with Amalgamated Sugar employing 3,000 people across Idaho and processing close ...

• While sugar cane accounts for half of the sugar produced in the U.S. each year, the other half comes from sugar beets, white root vegetables that weigh two to five pounds each. • California’s ...

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 ...

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Co-op’s pre-pile harvest is underway. Farmers who grow sugarbeets for the Renville, Minnesota-based cooperative began digging their crop on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. The ...