BLACKFOOT, Idaho — Doug Evans likes the looks of his beets and those that other farmers in his region produced. In the relatively high-altitude growing area, word was that sugar content “started off a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Outside of Amalgamated Sugar’s Nampa factory, piles of a pale, chalky substance loom like flat-topped hills. The company said that ...

POCATELLO — USDA’s Feb. 20 announcement that the federal government will provide $150 million in assistance to American sugar beet and sugar cane farmers came as welcome news to Idaho’s 400-plus sugar ...

As his sugar beet harvest continued, Zach Patterson of Paul, Idaho, liked much of what he saw — considering the challenges of the early season. “The beets that escaped the hailstorms did exceptionally ...

A worker at Amalgamated Sugar Co.'s sugar beet receiving station at Murtaugh uses a front-end loader Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, to tidy a pile of "early" sugar beets along U.S. Highway 30. As the weather ...

TWIN FALLS -- An Idaho company is expecting record sugar beet crops to yield nearly 40 tons per acre in Magic Valley this year. The Times-News reports farmers began digging crops on Sept. 8, and ...

BURLEY — Managing nitrogen has always been a balancing act for sugar beet growers. Plants need nitrogen early in the season to put on weight, but too much late in the year can cause sugar levels to ...