Sugar, you might think, is just sugar, no matter where it comes from. But not anymore. About half of all sugar in the U.S. comes from sugar beets, and the other half comes from sugar cane. Now, for ...

He needed sugar for Thanksgiving, but his first beet attempt had already failed. This time he went to Minnesota’s beet fields ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - America's sugar beet growers are under siege as U.S. food companies increasingly shun genetically modified (GMO) crops. In the past seven years, the farmers – many in Minnesota, ...

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 ...

Egypt cultivated 620,000 feddans of sugar beets this year – up by 10,000 feddans in 2022 – and targets to produce 1.8 million tons of sugar from beets in 2023, said the Ministry of Supply and Internal ...

Red River Valley farmers kicked off the sugar beet harvest, delivering over a million tons in the first 24 hours. The Red River Valley sugar beet harvest began with more than a million tons delivered ...