ISBI and Northarvest Bean Growers Association's Bean Day will merge in 2026, but ISBI has a full slate of plans for its 2025 show in Fargo, including speakers on politics and the sugarbeet industry.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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