CROOKSTON, Minn. -- It's been six years since Allan Dragseth and neighbor Roger Odegaard decided to take the lead on getting the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Museum up and running. Since then, they have ...

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.” ...

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Roughly half of sugar grown in the United States comes from sugarbeets and the other half comes from sugarcane. Sugar, or sucrose, is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in fruits, vegetables and ...

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