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RENVILLE -- As of this month, Renville County and the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative have been locked in litigation over the property taxes the cooperative pays for seven years running without resolution. The county's legal bills in the dispute to the law firm of Briggs...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- American Crystal Sugar's board of directors has decided to have the cooperative's farmer members plant biotech sugar beet seed again this year, despite a federal court challenge by opponents of genetically modified beets. The Red River Valley co-op is the...

OLIVIA -- Renville County will be ordering the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative to take steps to remove snow and ice in County Ditch 45, and will consider imposing fines for flooding that has already occurred along it. The County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday instructed...

RENVILLE -- Air quality and storage tank environmental rule violations at the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative processing plant near Renville have resulted in a $50,400 civil penalty from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the agency announced. From 2007 to 2009, the...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has assessed a sugar beet plant a $50,400 civil penalty for air quality and storage tank violations. The agency says from 2007 to 2009, the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative processing plant near Renville recorded...

FARGO, N.D. -- A Fargo-based energy company is moving forward with plans for the nation's first-ever beet ethanol plant -- the first step in an ambitious plan to turn one of the Red River Valley's top crops into a biofuel mainstay. The proposed plant was announced Monday by Green...

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...