Godfrey’s 52, so he never thinned, dug or topped sugar beets on his grandfather’s farm in Cache Valley because he would have been 7 years old when the last sugar beet factory in Utah closed in ...

To feed the smoke-bellowing, state-of-the-art ABSC factory of Oxnard (completed in 1898), that would become the nation’s leading producer of refined beet sugar, racially subordinated Mexican and ...

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 ...

Godfrey's 52, so he never thinned, dug or topped sugar beets on his grandfather's farm in Cache Valley because he would have been 7 years old when the last sugar beet factory in Utah closed in ...

Facilities expanded into Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana. In 1901, the Great Western Railway was organized to serve the sugar beet industry by transporting beets, sugar, molasses, coal, and lime rock.

Sidney Mayor Bret Smelser calls the sugar factory "the cornerstone" of the town's economy. "We're enjoying oil right now, but that comes and goes," Smelser said.

DENVER (AP) - Sugar beet growers from Wyoming and Nebraska told a federal appeals court Wednesday that Imperial Sugar Co. broke the law when it backed out of an agreement ...