Industry News
UNL studying whether char from sugarbeet plants will improve soil
UNL studying whether char from sugarbeet plants will improve soil By: Midwest Producer and University of Nebraska-Lincoln November 23, 2016 8:00 am, published with permission SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Scientists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have begun a multi-year study into whether high-carbon char, a fine, powdery coal dust left over from the processing of sugarbeets, … Read More
Sweet Deal – Brett Petersen earns FFA American Star
Sweet Deal – Brett Petersen earns FFA American Star November 25, 2016 6:30 am By ANDREA JOHNSON Assistant Editor, MN Farm Guide Published with permission MURDOCK, Minn. – A sugarbeet farmer from the Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg (KMS) School District has earned one of the top awards from the National FFA Organization – the American Star. Brett … Read More
Preserving the Sweet Life in Minnesota
Preserving the Sweet Life in Minnesota By: Sam Brodey, MINNPOST.com 10/20/16 CC/Flickr/Heather In the United States, Minnesota ranks first in tons of sugar beets produced, and second in overall tonnage of sugar produced, with 12.3 million tons in 2013. Rep. Collin Peterson’s office in the U.S. Capitol’s Rayburn Building is more homey rural western Minnesota … Read More
Memories You Just Can’t Beet
Memories You Just Can’t Beet By: Megan Dotson, RoundupWeb.com October 19, 2016 Sidney, MT – Having been born and raised in Richland County, agriculture has had a lasting impression on me, and still does. As a child, my mom and grandma leased their land to wheat farmers, but it was beet farming that I really … Read More
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Necessity is the Mother of Invention By Stuart Reitz, The Argus Observer October 9, 2016 The sugar beet harvest campaign will be cranking up here shortly. In fact, you may be seeing trucks hauling loads of beets down from our neighbors to the north, around La Grande and the Columbia Basin. Sugar beets are undoubtedly … Read More
Setting Down Roots
Setting Down Roots The Jamestown Sun via Forum News Service Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 GRAND FORKS, N.D.—Though the Upper Midwest—and North Dakota especially—is now home to an abundance of agricultural products, few of the major crops grown commercially here actually originated in North American soil. Before European settlement, much of the region’s landscape was typical … Read More
Sugar Beets: A Classic Case of ‘Good News, Bad News’
Sugar Beets: A Classic Case of ‘Good News, Bad News’ By Dave Bonner, Powell Tribune (WY) Sept. 23, 2016 The headlines vary widely. On one hand, the 2016 sugar beet crop in the Lovell factory district of Western Sugar Cooperative is on track to post another strong showing. Officials look for a yield averaging 28.9 … Read More
New life for Shirley Station north of Crookston, MN
New life for Shirley Station north of Crookston on #75 By Mike Christopherson, Crookston Times Jul. 18, 2016 Crookston, Minn. Now that he’s retired, Myron Veenstra has found himself spending quite a bit of time trying to reconstruct his family’s history, and with him growing up with his family a few miles north of Crookston on … Read More
Western Sugar Celebrates 100 Years of Sugar Manufacturing
Sweet Centennial: Western Sugar Celebrates 100 Years of Sugar Manufacturing By Matt Naber, Powell Tribune June 28, 2016 A crowd of about 800 of the Big Horn Basin’s sugar beet farmers, current and past employees of Western Sugar Cooperative and their families celebrated the Lovell factory’s 100th anniversary at Armory Park on Thursday. “This factory … Read More
Sugar Beets’ Role in the Idaho Economy
Sugar Beets’ Role in the Idaho Economy By Heather Kennison MagicValley.com May 22, 2016 A top crop: The sugar beet is in the top six or seven crops for the state in terms of its value when it leaves the farm, said Laura Johnson, bureau chief for the Idaho State Department of Agriculture’s market development … Read More