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. Related Articles Lotus and ...

MOORHEAD - Twin Cities entrepreneurs have developed a new premium-pour vodka made entirely from beet sugar produced here in the Red River Valley. BET (pronounced "beet") Vodka is expected to hit ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) -For years, sugar beets were a lifeline for American farmers. More than half of domestically produced sugar comes from the white-fleshed root crops, and robust demand from the ...

WORLAND — The growers who produced and harvested sugar beets, the haulers that got them to the factory in Worland, and the hard work that happened there at every step of sugar processing — it all ...

When it comes to buying processed foods, there are many factors that consumers take into account. These include topics such as health, sustainability and availability or dependency on other regions ...

People love the taste of sugar beets' primary byproduct: white sugar. Soilborne cyst nematodes—parasitic, microscopic worms—enjoy the root vegetable, too, but as their sole food source. It's an ...

The U.S. sugar program, which is supposed to protect cane and beet growers by limiting imports, is struggling under current conditions and may face forfeitures of sugar to the government ...