The Caro beet drop event will begin at 8 p.m. on New Year's Eve at Trudeau Square. There will be an early drop at 9 p.m. and ...

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 ...

CROOKSTON, Minn. -- It's been six years since Allan Dragseth and neighbor Roger Odegaard decided to take the lead on getting the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Museum up and running. Since then, they have ...

In the 1890s a canal was built to furnish water to farms around Culbertson, located in southwest Nebraska. It was called "Farmers Ditch," and it was needed by the farmers to grow crops. In 1916 my ...

Whether you love beets or hate them, you probably haven't given them as much thought as Irwin Goldman. A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Goldman is also former chair of the ...

The British Sugar factory at Wissington, an eight-mile (13km) drive from Downham Market, is now dubbed "the largest and the ...

It was written last year that despite the 17.5% price reduction to a headline £33/t, the 2025-26 sugar beet campaign would ...

Beets are commonly grown for their bulbous roots, but their tops can also be harvested for greens, and they are an excellent source of Vitamin A as well as calcium. Beet juice is sometimes used in ...

BELMOND, Iowa - Belmond was once home to a sugar beet factory and its history is documented at the Belmond Historical Society Museum. "The sugar beet plant played a vital role in the economic health ...

BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. -- After years of growing sugar beets in the rich soil of the Red River Valley, Mike Hasbargen figures he can handle the gamut of minor catastrophes that occur with every new crop: ...

You know that some of the sugar you purchase in stores is derived from sugar cane, right? You may also know that unless you live in a tropical climate, you wouldn't be able to grow sugar cane in your ...