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SMBSC Beet Growers Face Perfect Storm

Published January 27, 2026

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative Board Chairman Nate Hultgren says a combination of disease pressure, excess moisture, and weak sugar prices made 2025 one of the most difficult years growers have faced. Speaking at the American Sugarbeet Growers Association annual…

Clorpyrifos Drama Continues

Published February 4, 2024

Chlorpyrifos has been an ongoing legal battle. At one point, the EPA took away the farmers’ ability to use this common insecticide on all food crops. The Eight Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the EPA rule in November. American Sugarbeet…

Ag Leaders Respond to EPA Action

Published December 20, 2023

In a statement, American Sugarbeet Growers Association President Nate Hultgren welcomed the return of chlorpyrifos, but said the EPA decision cannot “undo the economic harm that resulted from its previous revocation.” American Soybean Association director Alan Meadows praised the process…

ASGA Officers Re-elected

Published January 31, 2023

American Sugarbeet Growers Association President Nate Hultgren of Raymond, Minnesota was re-elected to a second term. ASGA Vice President Neil Rockstad of Ada, Minnesota was also re-elected.

Agriculture Groups Sue EPA Over Chlorpyrifos Ban

Published February 10, 2022

Twenty agricultural groups are suing the EPA for denying the use of chlorpyrifos. Northern soybean, sugarbeet and wheat producers are part of the litigation. The groups are seeking an injunction of a rule that will take effect at the end…

Hultgren, Rockstad Lead ASGA

Published February 6, 2022

Nate Hultgren of Raymond, Minnesota was unanimously elected president of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association. Hultgren also chairs the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative and succeeds Dan Younggren of Hallock, Minnesota. Neil Rockstad of Ada, Minnesota was elected ASGA vice…

Building Coalitions

Published January 31, 2022

Raymond, Minnesota farmer Nate Hultgren is the incoming president of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association. Hultgren says one of his priorities is developing agriculture partnerships to get the next farm bill passed. "The sugarbeet industry has been successful, but I…

MN Sugarbeet Growers Optimistic for 2020

Published March 30, 2020

Despite the challenges of 2018 and 2019, sugarbeet growers are showing some optimism about the upcoming planting season. Raymond, Minnesota farmer and American Sugarbeet Growers Association Vice President Nate Hultgren says there are some shares changing hands in the Southern…

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SMBSC Beet Growers Face Perfect Storm

Clorpyrifos Drama Continues

Ag Leaders Respond to EPA Action

ASGA Officers Re-elected

Agriculture Groups Sue EPA Over Chlorpyrifos Ban

Hultgren, Rockstad Lead ASGA

Building Coalitions

MN Sugarbeet Growers Optimistic for 2020

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