Sugar

Simons joins Paynesville Health Care PAYNESVILLE -- Pamela D. Simons has joined the Paynesville Area Health Care System medical provider group and the Chain of Lakes Medical Clinic of Cold Spring. Dr. Simons holds a medical degree and is board certified by the American Board of...

A Fargo-based energy company is moving forward with plans to turn one of the Red River Valley's top crops - sugar beets - into efficient, lucra-tive biofuel. Green Vision Group, the company behind the project, said Monday it's work-ing to build a demonstration plant to convert beets...

RENVILLE -- Mark Arnold of Holloway will serve as chairman of the board for the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative. Arnold was elected during the annual reorganization meeting Friday, according to an announcement from the cooperative. Also elected to serve on the board directors...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- American Crystal Sugar Co.'s shareholders were told recently that this year's crop is projected to bring them average payments of $57 per ton. That's a modern record, bested only by a payment jacked up more than 30 years ago by a run-up on sugar prices in the...

OLIVIA -- Much to the frustration of downstream farmers, the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative violated its discharge permit last season by continuing to send millions of gallons of treated effluent into Renville County Ditch 45 well into the planting season. The sugar cooperative...

Wyoming is a long way from places where sugar cane is grown, but a test plant in the northeast part of the state will soon be turning sugar cane waste into biofuel. KL Energy Corp., based in Rapid City, S.D., and Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras announced an agreement Tuesday...

OLIVIA -- The Renville County Board of Commissioners may make an offer to the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative to seek a mediated settlement to the ongoing litigation over property taxes. The commissioners held a closed meeting Tuesday to discuss the litigation. County Attorney...

FARGO, N.D. -- U.S. sugar production will decrease "substantially" if carbon emissions are taxed at projected rates, says a new analysis by the Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies at North Dakota State University in Fargo. Richard "Skip" Taylor and Won W. Koo at NDSU...

OLIVIA -- Seven-axle tractor-trailer rigs will be allowed to carry loads of sugar beets weighing up to 97,000 pounds on portions of three Renville County roads beginning this year. The Renville County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt a new permit system to...

MOORHEAD, Minn. - American Crystal Sugar Co. says profits from this fall's sugar beet harvest in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota will not be as sweet as last year's. Officials cite bad weather during the growing season.

WAHPETON, N.D. - The driver of a sugar beet truck involved in a crash that killed a Wahpeton woman has been charged with negligent homicide. Fifty-two-year-old Cathleen Dean of Barney faces up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine if convicted. She has not yet entered a plea. The...