The Advocate

It revolutionized the sugarcane industry. Now, the planting machine returns home to Ascension.

A vintage sugarcane planting machine — one of 154 made by the Louisianan whose invention ended cane-planting's back-breaking hand labor — has been brought back home to Ascension Parish, where it was ...
AG Week

U.S. sugarbeet planting kicked off in March as USDA anticipates larger U.S. acreage

Sugarbeet planting in northern states kicked off in the last week of March, just as the U.S. Department of Agriculture was estimating a higher number acres nationwide for the crop than in recent years ...
The Idaho Press-Tribune

Amalgamated Sugar: Plant processes 1.5 million beets to produce sugar

On one end of the Amalgamated Sugar processing plant in Nampa mounds of sugar beets sit in rows, still covered in dirt from the fields they came from. On the other end of the plant, trucks and rail ...
Capital Press

Sugar beet planting enters home stretch

AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho — Tyson Funk finished planting sugar beets April 20, 10-to-14 days ahead of the long-term average for his area. “The guys wanted to get done as much as I did,” he said. Donovan ...
Idaho Statesman

Your sugar may have come from Idaho farms and Nampa’s Amalgamated plant. Here’s how

This story was first published Oct. 25, 2014, under the headline, “Sugar beets to sugar bag: Everything you never knew about what goes on inside Nampa’s Amalgamated plant, including why it smells.” ...