Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative announced on April 22 that it will close its plant in Brawley, California, which has operated under its subsidiary, Spreckels Sugar Company Inc.

The Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative met its environmental ... The shareholders planted 121,385 acres, but were able to harvest about 97,000 acres. They left about 20% of the crop in ...

The Spreckels Sugar plant, originally built in 1947, is being decommissioned by its parent company. Imperial County Chairman ...

A new custom-built sugarbeet harvester is now in the hands of researchers at North Dakota State University and the University ...

The Brawley beet facility was built in 1947 and was purchased by the Holly Sugar Corp. in 1996. SMBSC bought Holly Sugar from ...

BRAWLEY — Spreckels Sugar Company, Inc. will close the Brawley plant on July 31, 2025.

Edible beets can also be golden, white or internally striped (as in the Chiogga beet). There are other types of beets, such as sugar beets ... late-August for a fall harvest.

It starts with a sugar beet, on a farm like the one owned by Peter and Allyson Maxwell of Beaverton. The Maxwells plant and harvest sugar beets as grower-owners of the Michigan Sugar Company.