Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last factory in California that turns sugar beets into sugar is shutting down after 78 years, according to the company that ...

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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 ...

Even for a bunch of sugar beet farmers, the challenges of this year’s harvest are little bit sticky. For the first time in recent memory, the Western Sugar Cooperative will fire up its Billings ...

Sugar output in the EU, the world's third largest producer, is set to fall 9% in the upcoming season as sugar beet planting.

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 ...