CROOKSTON, Minn. — Fifty years after American Crystal Sugar was bought by farmers, a small group gathered in the Gold Link Senior Center in Crookston to learn not only the company’s history but the ...

A standing-room only crowd of close to 200 gathered at ISBI to listen to living sugarbeet history presented by four men with long experiences and memories in how sugarbeet production used to be.

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Author Molly Yeh wrote "Sweet Farm!" with inspiration from her home -- a fifth-generation sugar beet farm in northwestern Minnesota.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last factory in California that turns sugar beets into sugar is shutting down after 78 years, according to the company that ...

I’m a Washington state sugar beet farmer. You might not have ever heard of a sugar beet, but you likely rely on sugar beets several times a day. American-grown sugar beets and sugar cane are the two ...

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 ...