The British Sugar factory at Wissington, an eight-mile (13km) drive from Downham Market, is now dubbed "the largest and the ...

Lining the shelves of the bakery aisle in your local grocery store are bags upon bags of sugar. Whether it’s brown sugar, granulated sugar, or powdered sugar, the sweet stuff is a vital part of baking ...

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative announced on April 22 that it will close its plant in Brawley, California, which has operated under its subsidiary, Spreckels Sugar Company Inc. Southern ...

POWELL - The first loads of sugar beets for 2007 began arriving at the Powell beet dump off Road 10 and U.S. 14-A earlier this month. At first glance, it seems to be a pretty simple process: trucks ...

Ben Abatti III cradled the sugarbeet in his arm, slicing it open. The blade carved through the beet’s dusty, gnarled exterior, revealing a sweet white core. It was a hot mid-July morning. Abatti was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sugar beet is a type of root vegetable that is grown primarily for sugar production. It belongs to the same family as the table beet, but it has higher sugar content, making it valuable for the ...