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 ...

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. The last sugar beat factory ...

Editor's note: Kathy Jordan died May 1, but true to her newspaper roots, she filed several columns ahead of deadline. We honor her life's work of preserving the community's history by publishing the ...

The process of farming and refining sugar beet in Britain hasn't changed much, but the power and the machinery behind it have. In 1925, a fledgling sugar factory in Norfolk managed to process 600 ...

Even for a bunch of sugar beet farmers, the challenges of this year’s harvest are little bit sticky. For the first time in recent memory, the Western Sugar Cooperative will fire up its Billings ...

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 ...

A factory that produces about 320,000 tonnes of sugar every year is marking its centenary. However, working life at the British Sugar factory in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, has undergone a significant ...