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USDA makes $150 million available for sugar producers, plus $89.1 million for 2024 weather problems

Post Bulletin 22 Feb 2026
20, announced $150 million of the $1 billion will go toward sugarbeet and sugarcane farmers ... USDA is also providing $89.1 million in weather-related disaster assistance to sugarbeet producers who suffered losses due to excessive heat in 2024.
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Neil Rockstad reflects on leadership in ag and sugarbeets

Post Bulletin 17 Feb 2026
— In one of his last appearances on stage as the president of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association, Neil Rockstad reminisced about his wife leading a remodeling project at their home.
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Sugarbeeters ready for wrestling's postseason

Blaine County Journal 11 Feb 2026
This weekend, the Sugarbeeters, of head coach Ben Stroh, will take part in the ...
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Researchers continue fight against cercospora and weeds in sugarbeets

Grand Forks Herald 10 Feb 2026
— As diseases and weeds persist in war with sugarbeets, researchers continue to wage war on them through studying ways to mitigate the damage ... The diseases occur when warm temperatures heat up the piled sugarbeets.
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Bayer Crop Science not ready to give up on glyphosate

Grand Forks Herald 03 Feb 2026
— There may be a day when Bayer Crop Science decides it needs to exit the glyphosate business, George Gough, director of stakeholder relations for Bayer Crop Science, told the annual meeting of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association.
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Individual farmer economic outlook 'depends,' Farm Credit Council president says

Brainerd Dispatch 29 Jan 2026
27, at the American Sugarbeet Growers Association’s annual meeting in Indian Wells, near Palm Springs ... Markwart once gave him a blue and a red sugarbeet tie, and Wasserman wears the one that seems to represent what he sees coming.
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EPA is working 'feverishly' on new label for over-the-top dicamba for soybeans and cotton

Brainerd Dispatch 29 Jan 2026
CharlesBillySmith, director of the registration division at the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs, appeared via Zoom during the American Sugarbeet Growers Association’s annual meeting on Tuesday, Jan ... Dicamba in sugarbeets.
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Sugarbeets, 'crop like no other,' continue to see yield and quality improvements

Brainerd Dispatch 07 Jan 2026
When it comes to upper Midwest crops, sugarbeets are one of the younger siblings. According to a history of sugarbeets on the American Sugarbeet Growers Association website, precursors to modern sugarbeets have been used as food since ancient Egypt.
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Sugarbeet harvest, from ground and from sky

Post Bulletin 31 Dec 2025
A highly variable sugarbeet season in 2025 meant records for some and ...
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Community Members Form Sugarbeeter Foundation

Blaine County Journal 17 Dec 2025
On that day, The Sugarbeeter Foundation (TSF) was formed, and the ...
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A one-year farm bill and a lot of unknowns for ag and sugar

Duluth News Tribune 16 Dec 2025
Importantly for our industry, while other areas of the government are being cut, sugarbeet research, as a result of sugar reps efforts, remained even at the levels we’ve enjoyed in recent years.
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Sugarbeeter girls poised for an exciting season

Blaine County Journal 10 Dec 2025
The Sugarbeeters are ready to be strong once again ... The Sugarbeeters will have a new...
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