In today’s focus on clean eating and balanced nutrition, the type of sugar we consume is under growing scrutiny. Cane sugar vs beet sugar is a common comparison, as both are widely used sweeteners in ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) -For years, sugar beets were a lifeline for American farmers. More than half of domestically produced sugar comes from the white-fleshed root crops, and robust demand from the ...

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 ...

He needed sugar for Thanksgiving, but his first beet attempt had already failed. This time he went to Minnesota’s beet fields ...

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, ...

Red River Valley farmers kicked off the sugar beet harvest, delivering over a million tons in the first 24 hours. The Red River Valley sugar beet harvest began with more than a million tons delivered ...

Field testing is underway for genetically engineered sugar beets resistant to the herbicide dicamba, which biotech critics fear could injure surrounding crops. KWS, the developer of dicamba-tolerant ...