Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar CooperativeNews Posted on SMBSC
6-4-09
Starbucks, according to an article from Reuters, will revamp its food offerings at the end of the month. It'll have more salad. Phase out food dyes and artificial flavorings. And get rid of that whipp... Click for details»
6-4-09
The outlook for sugar beet growers is much brighter this spring.
About 135-thousand acres of beets are being planted this year in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. And, for the first time si... Click for details»
6-4-09
Action Will Help Expand Marketing and Increase Availability of Domestically -Produced Sugar
WASHINGTON. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) today announced ... Click for details»
6-1-09
The 2009 planting season has been ugly for farmers in the area. Some are bumping into planting deadlines that would put them into decisions about whether to activate their prevent-plant insurance cove... Click for details»
5-1-09
For sugar-beet growers looking to put a dent on their spring seeding, the last few days has put a screeching halt to those plans.
Snow came and went last week, and has swept through southern Alberta ... Click for details»
5-1-09
Sugar, jilted a quarter of a century ago by food companies charmed by less-expensive high-fructose corn syrup, is making a comeback as wholesome and more natural.
Products including soda pop and pa... Click for details»
4-27-09
FARGO, N.D. - American Crystal Sugar Co.’s board of directors met April 22 to consider whether to increase 2009 plantings to offset potential yield reductions due to a cold wet spring.
“We didn’t m... Click for details»
4-27-09
FARGO, N.D. - A trial marketing campaign with sugar-containing soda pop manufacturer Pepsi called Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback.
That’s good news for the sugar industry, says David Ber... Click for details»
4-24-09
A mid-April snowstorm briefly halted spring planting in parts of Idaho, but otherwise appears to have had little negative effect.
Many crops are getting off to a late start this year because of the... Click for details»
4-24-09
Bowing to consumer trends, two soft drinks with connections to the past were launched this week for a national, but brief, eight-week run.
Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback are sweetened w... Click for details»
4-1-09
The state’s new proposal for buying land from U.S. Sugar Corp. to restore the Everglades is less than half the original deal announced last summer.
The new proposal, announced by Gov. Charlie Crist... Click for details»
2-26-09
PepsiCo has announced it will be introducing a new line of ‘pure sugar’ soft drinks in late April.
Besides donning a retro look, Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback will not be sweetened wi... Click for details»
2-26-09
Global sugar production is poised for a record fall this year due to funding constraints caused by the credit crisis and structural problems in the market, Czarnikow, the sugar merchant, warned on Wed... Click for details»
2-26-09
Heavy rain followed by freezing temperatures last fall caused big harvesting problems in the sugar beet fields, so Mahnomen County has now been designated a primary agricultural disaster area. Farmers... Click for details»
1-27-09
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate yesterday voted to approve former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The American Sugar Alliance released the following statement... Click for details»
1-20-09
TWIN FALLS, Idaho - It was not only an interesting year for sugar beet growers, it was also a successful year, said Mark Duffin, executive director of the Idaho Sugarbeet Growers Association.
Speak... Click for details»
12-9-08
Everyone harps about farm subsidies - and sugar, in particular - with little understanding.
Sugar is a foreign aid program and an America Last agricultural program at best. There are 41 foreign cou... Click for details»
12-2-08
Windsor has had a very “sweet” past thanks to the Great Western Sugar Company.
The first sugar was made at the Windsor Great Western Sugar Company’s factory on Friday, Nov. 6, 1903. The factory wa... Click for details»
11-13-08
Ask beet farmers to identify the late-fall odor hanging over Billings and they'll say it's the smell of money emanating from the stacks of the South Side sugar refinery.
This year, it smells like F... Click for details»
10-29-08
The sugarbeet harvest in western Otter Tail County is only 40 percent complete, and farmers want to see sunny skies for several days. The problem, with wet weather, is that lifters become plugged.
... Click for details»
10-27-08
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. – American Crystal Sugar Co.’s future is sweet, despite current economic turmoil, if history is any indication.
But not so much for many Minnesota manufacturers.
“They ar... Click for details»
10-27-08
Western Sugar Cooperative says this year's sugar beet harvest has been a total success.
The harvest is about 90% complete although the heavy snow two weeks ago eventually made for muddy conditions.... Click for details»
10-27-08
Casper, Wyo. - Part of any discussion on weed control, the Wyoming Weed Management Association annual meeting was no exception when it came to discussing the use of Roundup herbicide on an ever-increa... Click for details»
10-27-08
CODY, Wyo. - Dirt is the name of the game when it comes to sugarbeet harvest.
Mud removal, that is.
From start to finish, mud removal is the top priority of harvesting and processing sugarbeets,... Click for details»
10-27-08
American Crystal’s sugar beet harvest in the Red River Valley is nearly complete, and the yields look to be matching the record 25.5 tons per acre set two years ago, according to company officials.
... Click for details»
10-21-08
Fields in the Powell area continued to dry out from early October snow and rain that halted the sugar beet harvest.
Sugar content measured more than 17 percent as the Big Horn Basin sugar beet harv... Click for details»
10-21-08
TWIN FALLS, Idaho - A snowstorm over the weekend of Oct. 10 through 12 slowed the sugar beet harvest in Idaho just as it was getting under way, said an official of Amalgamated Sugar Co. in Boise.
“... Click for details»
10-21-08
American Crystal has announced that the sugar beet processing factory in Sidney will be in operation next year.
“It’s a tough decision because we do need all those acres,” Steve Sing, general manag... Click for details»
10-21-08
Summer rains cooperated with sugar beet growers, and now those farmers are looking at a record harvest this fall.
''The last two years were record years where farmers were harvesting 23.5 tons per... Click for details»
10-21-08
The once-vast California sugar beet industry that had been one of the major crops in the Central Valley is now almost gone, dwindling to a single processing plant in Imperial County.
Sugar beet pro... Click for details»
