Sugar Beet News

Egypt's Nile Sugar to up capacity in 2013: CEO
Reuters Africa
"We are undertaking a de-bottlenecking process and plan to up capacity in our crushing line," Nile Sugar chief executive Ali Al Dajani told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the Kingsman Dubai sugar conference. "We process 7000 tonnes of beet ...

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2012 Cavalcade will feature Treasure Valley's 'then and now'
Idaho Press-Tribune
Where's that smokestack that we used to see towering in the back of the Amalgamated Sugar Co.? Fields have become roads and subdivisions. A lot has changed since the factory started processing sugar beets in the 1940s. Dewey Palace graced Nampa's ...

Use of GM crops likely to increase - BPI
Philippine Star
8, which implements the guidelines for importation and release into the environment of plants and plant products derived using modern biotechnology. Commercialization of Bacillus thuringensis (Bt) corn continues, he admitted.

CHS co-op distributing record $421 million to members
Pioneer Press
1, when the company locked out more than 1300 workers at sugar beet processing factories in North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. The US sugar program's key provision is limiting sugar imports and propping up domestic sugar prices, making the sugar beet ...

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Los Angeles Times
Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say
Fox News
A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Sugar and other sweeteners are, in fact, so toxic to the human ...
Sugar can harm like alcohol and tobacco, regulate it: article saysLos Angeles Times
A Spoonful of Bad Health? UCSF Researchers Slam SugarWall Street Journal (blog)
'Sugar is toxic, needs to be regulated like alcohol'Deccan Herald
Montreal Gazette
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Ros Agro Misses 2011 Profit Target on Lower Sugar Prices
BusinessWeek
2 (Bloomberg) -- Ros Agro Plc, a Russian grain and sugar producer listed in London, missed its profit target for last year after a bumper beet harvest pushed domestic sugar prices lower, Chief Executive Officer Maxim Basov said.

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Twin Cities Planet
American Crystal union to fight US sugar program
Crookston Daily Times
1, when the company locked out more than 1300 workers at sugar beet processing factories in North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa in a contract dispute. "What we have done (in the past) is fought side-by-side with Crystal Sugar and their shareholders and ...
After more failed talks, Crystal Sugar says 'window is closing'Minnesota Public Radio
American Crystal: Window for Reaching Deal Is ClosingTwin Cities Business (blog)
Union Talks Fail, AgainValley News Live
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
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The Moscow Times
Q&A: Skrynnik Sets 7 Growth Records in Agriculture
The Moscow Times
A: This year is ending with seven records, of which four are related to production and three to exports. We have grown record harvests of sugar beet, sunflowers, soy and rape. Russia has for the first time exported sugar to the former Soviet republics, ...

Museum speaks of a time when sugar beets grew in Iowa
Agri News
Information about growing and processing of sugar beets, recreational activities associated with the plant and some of the tragedies that occurred during the plant's years of operation is featured. Turner said volunteers researched and built the ...

News Pakistan
Protein supplements production – Pakistan Industrial Sector- Part 2
News Pakistan
In this section the final chosen design of process for the plant is explained. This involves an overview of the plant diagram, which is done in conjunction and reference to the PID. Each line present is analysed and its constitution explained.

Los Angeles Times
Sugar can harm like alcohol and tobacco, regulate it: article says
Los Angeles Times
There's a new public enemy in the pantry, and it's … sugar. In a provacative commentary coming out in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature, Dr. Robert Lustig and two colleagues from UC San Francisco argue that the added sugars in processed foods ...
Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers SayFox News
A Spoonful of Bad Health? UCSF Researchers Slam SugarWall Street Journal (blog)
Is Sugar Toxic? Regulation Needed, Researchers SayFood Integrity Campaign (blog)
Montreal Gazette -Deccan Herald
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NDSU partner in $1 million energy beet project
AG Week
This grant will help us make significant progress toward that vision and help develop North Dakota's energy beet biofuel industry.” GVG is in the process of selecting the location for its first processing facility, which is expected to produce 20 ...

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About Art's Way Manufacturing, Inc.
Virtual Press Office (press release)
Art's Way manufactures and distributes farm machinery niche products including animal feed processing equipment, sugar beet defoliators and harvesters, land maintenance equipment, crop shredding equipment, plows, hay and forage equipment and top and ...

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Sugar quota row upsets Irish plans
Irish Independent
Ireland is opposed to any continuation of the sugar quota regime and Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has backed plans by Beet Ireland and the Irish Sugar Beet Bio-Refinery Group to revive the sugar processing industry in Ireland.

Twin Cities Planet
After more failed talks, Crystal Sugar says 'window is closing'
Minnesota Public Radio
Company officials in August barred about 1300 workers from five sugar beet processing plants in the Red River Valley. In Minnesota, the company has operations in Moorhead, East Grand Forks and Crookston. Its plants in North Dakota are in Drayton and ...
American Crystal union to fight US sugar programCrookston Daily Times
American Crystal: Window for Reaching Deal Is ClosingTwin Cities Business (blog)
Union Talks Fail, AgainValley News Live
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
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Crystal Talks Fail, Again
Valley News Live
This includes the continued hiring of local temporary employees, turning beets into sugar for our customers, finishing our processing campaign, preparing internal and contract labor to maintain our factories over the summer and further training ...
After more failed talks, Crystal Sugar says 'window is closing'Minnesota Public Radio
American Crystal, locked-out workers find no resolution after daylong ...The Republic
Lockout talks remain unproductiveIn-Forum

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End of beet quota would harm English growers
FarmersWeekly
Sugar beet quotas must not end in 2015 for the British sugar beet industry to have the opportunity to take advantage of a potentially larger EU-produced sugar market, growers heard at the British Beet Research Organisation annual conference.

Banned in Germany, But You're Probably Still Eating It
Food Consumer
Ninety percent or more of all US-grown corn, soybeans, canola, and sugar beets are genetically modified versions, which means that virtually all processed food items contain at least one or more genetically modified ingredients.

Monsanto to Face Biopiracy Charges in India
Food Consumer
Some GM crops, such as GM sugar beets and certain varieties of GM corn and soy, are engineered to withstand otherwise lethal doses ofMonsanto's herbicide Roundup. Other GM crops, such as Bt eggplant, are designed to produce their own pesticide ...

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Ingredient Manufacturers Meeting Demands for Visually Appealing Natural ...
Food Processing
"The list is reviewed regularly and the ingredients listed as compliant must be reconsidered every five years through a 'Sunset Review' process to determine if they should remain on, or be removed from, the list." (See list.) ...