Tag: sugar
UNL studying whether char from sugarbeet plants will improve soil
UNL studying whether char from sugarbeet plants will improve soil By: Midwest Producer and University of Nebraska-Lincoln November 23, 2016 8:00 am, published with permission SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Scientists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have begun a multi-year study into whether high-carbon char, a fine, powdery coal dust left over from the processing of sugarbeets, … Read More
Preserving the Sweet Life in Minnesota
Preserving the Sweet Life in Minnesota By: Sam Brodey, MINNPOST.com 10/20/16 CC/Flickr/Heather In the United States, Minnesota ranks first in tons of sugar beets produced, and second in overall tonnage of sugar produced, with 12.3 million tons in 2013. Rep. Collin Peterson’s office in the U.S. Capitol’s Rayburn Building is more homey rural western Minnesota … Read More
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Necessity is the Mother of Invention By Stuart Reitz, The Argus Observer October 9, 2016 The sugar beet harvest campaign will be cranking up here shortly. In fact, you may be seeing trucks hauling loads of beets down from our neighbors to the north, around La Grande and the Columbia Basin. Sugar beets are undoubtedly … Read More
Sugar Beets: A Classic Case of ‘Good News, Bad News’
Sugar Beets: A Classic Case of ‘Good News, Bad News’ By Dave Bonner, Powell Tribune (WY) Sept. 23, 2016 The headlines vary widely. On one hand, the 2016 sugar beet crop in the Lovell factory district of Western Sugar Cooperative is on track to post another strong showing. Officials look for a yield averaging 28.9 … Read More
Western Sugar Celebrates 100 Years of Sugar Manufacturing
Sweet Centennial: Western Sugar Celebrates 100 Years of Sugar Manufacturing By Matt Naber, Powell Tribune June 28, 2016 A crowd of about 800 of the Big Horn Basin’s sugar beet farmers, current and past employees of Western Sugar Cooperative and their families celebrated the Lovell factory’s 100th anniversary at Armory Park on Thursday. “This factory … Read More
Environmental Impacts of GMO Sugar Science Denial
The Environmental Impacts of GMO Sugar Science Denial By: Kevin M. Folta, Science 2.0 May 13, 2016 Several times a year I find myself exiting the Florida’s Turnpike at Yeehaw Junction and heading south. When I get to the small town of Okeechobee I take a left and head down Route 98 through Florida’s extensive … Read More
Western Sugar Agronomist: No lab test can differentiate between GMO, non-GMO sugar
By Sandra Hansen Posted December 13th, 2015 by Star-Herald So, what about GMO sugar? Ask Michael Ann Relka, agronomist with Western Sugar Cooperative in Scottsbluff, and Rebecca Larson, agronomist in plant pathology at Western’s Denver, Colo., office, and you will get an earful. Keep in mind that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) include plants that have been … Read More
Sugar beet waste product touted as billion-dollar ‘wonder material’
Sugar beet waste product touted as billion-dollar ‘wonder material’ Posted September 16th, 2015 by Reuters Media A Scottish company which has developed a material made from sugar beet waste believes the sky is the limit – literally. Cellucomp says its Curran product is twice as strong as carbon fibre and could one day be used … Read More
The Beet Factory
The Beet Factory Posted September 4th, 2015 by Charlevoix Courier In 1902 it was announced that a sugar beet factory would be erected in Charlevoix to the south of the D. M. & Ferry & Co. seed warehouse, now the Foster Boat Works Association condominium, along the Lake Charlevoix shoreline at the intersection of the railroad … Read More
How Sweet It Is
How Sweet It Is Posted April 20, 2015 by Mollee Francisco, Chaska Herald For more than a century, sugar has been the name of the game at 1060 Stoughton Ave. in Chaska. The sugar factory — now owned by United Sugars Corp. — has been churning out the sweet stuff on the eastern edge of downtown … Read More