63 pounds: Amount of refined sugar average American consumed last year 82 pounds: Amount of sweetener average American consumed last year, mostly from soft drinks 8 miles: Average per-load, round-trip ...

MOORHEAD - It's been a sweet harvest for sugar beet growers up and down the Red River Valley. American Crystal Sugar and Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative report that beets processed so far are producing ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago Spreckels Sugar — which was intertwined with Manteca’s prosperity and history for 75 years — fell victim to changing sugar beet economics and tougher California air quality rules.

We hope that timely and meaningful economic aid will provide a lifeline as farmers head into the fields for spring planting ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you'd prefer to replace processed sugar with more natural alternatives, there are plenty of options which can be used in ...