CROOKSTON, Minn. — Fifty years after American Crystal Sugar was bought by farmers, a small group gathered in the Gold Link Senior Center in Crookston to learn not only the company’s history, but the ...

Starring in two hot novels in the past six months suggests that the Minnesota vegetable is on a hot streak. Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red” was set in a town dependent on beets, with a prominent ...

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 ...

Molly Yeh's husband has a lot in common with Dwight Schrute. The Girl Meets Farm star famously moved from New York City to her Minnesota beet farm (cue The Office theme song) with Nick Hagen, whose ...

The John Innes Centre and its industrial and academic partners have been awarded UK Government funding to help deliver four ...