Tag: sugarbeets
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
Academies of Science finds GMOs Not Harmful to Human Health
Academies of Science finds GMOs Not Harmful to Human Health By: Elizabeth Weise, USATODAY May 17, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO — Genetically engineered crops are safe for humans and animals to eat and have not caused increases in cancer, obesity, gastrointestinal illnesses, kidney disease, autism or allergies, an exhaustive report from the National Academies of Science released Tuesday found. … Read More
Mike’s Mix: 2 BĒT Vodka Recipes
Mike’s Mix: 2 BĒT Vodka Recipes April 9, 2016 8:00 AM By: Mike Augustyniak, CBS Minnesota Sugar beets are an ugly vegetable that, it turns out, makes a very sexy spirit. Jerad Poling and Ben Brueshoff are the co-founders of BĒT Vodka, and the entrepreneurs we can thank for that discovery. They met first in the spring … Read More
Researchers Lower Nitrogen Recommendation in Sugarbeets
Researchers Lower Nitrogen Recommendation in Sugarbeets By: Carol Ryan Dumas, Capital Press March 15, 2016 JEROME, Idaho — Improvements in genetics and overall management have significantly reduced nitrogen needs in today’s sugar beet production, according to researchers at the USDA Agricultural Research Service and Amalgamated Sugar Co. Research in the 1990s resulted in recommendations of … Read More
Blogging to Promote Biotechnology in Sugarbeet Industry
Blogging to Promote Biotechnology in Sugarbeet Industry By: Sarah Brown, The Prairie Star • March 09, 2016 Laura Rutherford personifies wholesome American agriculture: the mother of three young boys, a marathoner, and a ninth generation farmer, she and her husband, Roy, farm sugarbeets near Grafton in North Dakota’s Red River Valley. She’s also an Internet savvy blogger … Read More
Western Sugar Agronomist: No lab test can differentiate between GMO, non-GMO sugar
By Sandra Hansen Posted December 13th, 2015 by Star-Herald So, what about GMO sugar? Ask Michael Ann Relka, agronomist with Western Sugar Cooperative in Scottsbluff, and Rebecca Larson, agronomist in plant pathology at Western’s Denver, Colo., office, and you will get an earful. Keep in mind that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) include plants that have been … Read More
Stepping back in time…”The Beetdiggers” remind us of our roots
By Julian Craveiro Posted October 20th, 2015 by Brush News-Tribune In honor of beet season I thought it appropriate that we look at a historical building that, although is not here anymore, is a key piece of this community’s history. Beet farming in the 1800’s is what drove the local economy of Morgan County. Fort Morgan and Brush … Read More
The Beet Factory
The Beet Factory Posted September 4th, 2015 by Charlevoix Courier In 1902 it was announced that a sugar beet factory would be erected in Charlevoix to the south of the D. M. & Ferry & Co. seed warehouse, now the Foster Boat Works Association condominium, along the Lake Charlevoix shoreline at the intersection of the railroad … Read More
How Sweet It Is
How Sweet It Is Posted April 20, 2015 by Mollee Francisco, Chaska Herald For more than a century, sugar has been the name of the game at 1060 Stoughton Ave. in Chaska. The sugar factory — now owned by United Sugars Corp. — has been churning out the sweet stuff on the eastern edge of downtown … Read More