With the recent announcement that Sidney Sugar beet plant will be closing, Eastern Montana sugar beet producers are looking at other options. Many producers already had their seed ordered for the ...

American Crystal Sugar Co. will no longer contract with sugarbeet growers who raised the crop for Sidney (Montana ... to close the Montana plant because Montana-Dakota Beet Growers Association ...

The Sidney Sugars plant is not the only one struggling. Spreckels Sugar announced this month that its plant in Mendota, Calif., west of Fresno, was closing for lack of beets. Across Montana ...

MOORHEAD, MINN. – American Crystal Sugar Co. on Feb. 6 notified association members and employees that it will close operations at Sidney Sugars Inc. due to inadequate interest from area farmers ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — An eastern Montana sugar beet refinery is shutting down production after nearly a century in business. The Billings Gazette reported the factory in Sidney will close in April ...

(Editor's note: American Crystal Sugar on Feb. 6, 2023, announced it is closing the Sidney Sugars processing plant in Sidney, Montana. The Montana-Dakota Beet Growers Association Board, which has ...

Montana sugar beet farmers have piled up a near-record harvest this fall, enough to keep factories making sugar in Billings and Sidney well ... temperatures that hurt plant growth.

And on and on and on, if you’re a Montana farmer in the sugar business. Officials at Western Sugar Cooperative in Billings and Sidney ... plant growth. An October without a hard freeze kept ...

Eastern Montana farmers pilling beets for Sidney ... plant growth. An October without a hard freeze kept beets growing and kept the harvest going into Nov. 11. Jobman said Western will make sugar ...

Officials at Sidney Sugars in eastern Montana expect to wrap their ... Montana farmers plant 45,000 acres of sugar beets annually.