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Seeking an Equitable Solution for Beet Growers

Published December 11, 2019

USDA is reviewing options to provide disaster assistance to sugarbeet producers. North Dakota Senator John Hoeven, Minnesota Congressman Collin Peterson and Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative CEO Kurt Wickstrom met with USDA Undersecretary Bill Northey to discuss the losses seen this fall.…

ACSC Shareholders Pay for Unharvested Acres

Published November 18, 2019

Due to a wet harvest season and early freezing temperatures, member-owners of American Crystal Sugar Company were unable to lift 118,000 acres of sugarbeets. To cover fixed costs, ACSC is requiring shareholders to pay nearly $350 for each unharvested acre.

ACSC Remains Confident About the Beet Harvest

Published October 16, 2019

It’s been a tough fall, but American Crystal Sugar Company Vice President of Agriculture Brian Ingulsrud remains optimistic the majority of the crop will be harvested. The number of workers available to farmers is shrinking and that will influence the…

A Quiet Fall for ACSC Stock

Published October 14, 2019

The uncertainty with this year’s sugarbeet harvest has created a nearly non-existent sugar stock trading market according to Jayson Menke with Acres & Shares. “In my 16 years working with (American Crystal Sugar Company) beet stock this is one of the…

Ag Commissioner Tours NW Minnesota

Published October 11, 2019

Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen spent Wednesday and Thursday in northwest Minnesota, including a visit to the American Crystal Sugar Company plant in East Grand Forks. Petersen says the tight harvest window has the attention of state government. "We're looking…

Co-op 100 List Released

Published October 10, 2019

The National Cooperative Bank is out with its list of the top 100 cooperatives in America. CHS remains at the top of the list with revenues of nearly $33 billion. Land O’Lakes is ranked second at $15 billion. The list…

USDA Releases Sugar Loan Rates

Published September 30, 2019

The Commodity Credit Corporation has announced the 2019 crop year rates for marketing assistance loan rates for sugar. For Minnesota and eastern North Dakota, the loan rate for refined beet sugar is 25.02 cents. The marketing allocations for beet processors…

Grove Succeeds Ronsberg at Crystal Seed

Published September 27, 2019

Tyler Grove has been named as the new general manager of Crystal Sugarbeet Seed. Grove has been the general agronomist at American Crystal Sugar Company for the past five years and will succeed Larry Ronsberg, who retired. Joe Hastings has…

ACSC Adds TAP Acres

Published May 28, 2019

Due to the late planting season, American Crystal Sugar Company shareholders will be seeding an additional 10,000 acres of beets this spring. This decision was made so the cooperative has adequate tonnage to operate its plants. The additional acreage is…

ACSC Adopts New System to Measure Sugar Quality

Published May 8, 2019

American Crystal Sugar Company has added a new digital system to analyze the recoverable sugar content in sugarbeets. KWS Innovations developed this methodology and has been using it for over ten years. KWS Business Development Manager Duane Bernhardson says the…

Articles tagged under: American Crystal Sugar Comany

Seeking an Equitable Solution for Beet Growers

ACSC Shareholders Pay for Unharvested Acres

ACSC Remains Confident About the Beet Harvest

A Quiet Fall for ACSC Stock

Ag Commissioner Tours NW Minnesota

Co-op 100 List Released

USDA Releases Sugar Loan Rates

Grove Succeeds Ronsberg at Crystal Seed

ACSC Adds TAP Acres

ACSC Adopts New System to Measure Sugar Quality

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