TWIN FALLS — While Amalgamated Sugar Co.'s processing plants are dedicated primarily to extracting sugar from the beet crop, the company also creates byproducts to be sold as livestock feed. About 10 ...

New technology can separate the fibers in the sugar beet pulp left over after sugar production. Part of the fiber can be used as a nutritional supplement due to its anti-inflammatory properties and ...

Four recent papers detail how food waste contains sustainable solutions for farming and new sources of bioactive compounds ...

What was once tossed into compost bins could soon help grow stronger crops and even support human health, new research ...

FARGO - Drought conditions and increasing livestock feed prices have sheep producers searching for alternative feedstuffs. Sugar beet byproducts could be a viable option to provide high-quality forage ...

Lining the shelves of the bakery aisle in your local grocery store are bags upon bags of sugar. Whether it’s brown sugar, granulated sugar, or powdered sugar, the sweet stuff is a vital part of baking ...

Farmer Ben Marshall in a Jerome, Idaho, sugar beet field. Courtesy Samantha Parrott Beet growers and processors are welcoming better sugar-storing conditions as harvest gains momentum. Growers who own ...

Declo, Idaho, farmer Ryan Samples stands in a sugar beet field July 10. (Courtesy Samantha Parrott/Snake River Sugarbeet Growers Association.) ABERDEEN, Idaho — Jordan Johns’ sugar beet crop looks ...