Reading Time: 2 minutes From tense contract negotiations in Montreal to a record-breaking "mad rush" planting in May, the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers’ 100th year was anything but predictable. Here's how southern Alberta producers managed to beat the five-year sugar content average and navigate local disease pressures to deliver over 726,000 tonnes.
100 years of sweet success: Alberta Sugar Beet Growers overcome tough ’25 season
Despite a delayed start and contract hurdles, Southern Alberta sugar beet producers delivered above-average yields and record sugar content for their centennial harvest
Canadian sugar beet growers push for national domestic sugar policy
Producers advocate for 100 per cent Canadian sugar procurement in government facilities to spark industry expansion and protect against global market flooding
Reading Time: 5 minutes Alberta Sugar Beet Growers continuing to push the importance of a domestic sugar policy that encourages home-grown sugar beet crops to widen both national and international markets.
Sugar beet harvest underway in southern Alberta
Weather co-operating for the most part in another successful southern Alberta sugar beet harvest season
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta Sugar Beet Growers hosts field tour to educate the public on the intricacies of the crop, its harvest process, and contracts with Lantic Sugar
Beets won’t benefit from Hamilton sugar refinery
Sugar beet growers want more market share for their locally grown crop, but they won’t get it from Canada’s newest sugar refinery
Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – When shelves across Western Canada were empty of sugar after strike action at the Rogers Sugar refinery in Vancouver, Canada’s sugar beet growers renewed calls for a national sugar strategy. Groups including the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers have long decried Canada’s reliance on imported cane sugar rather than Canadian-grown sugar beets. Alberta’s crop makes up about eight per cent of the sugar consumed […] Read more
Striking Rogers Sugar workers reach tentative deal
The walk-out sparked sugar shortages and led Alberta sugar beet producers to call for more local investment
Rogers Sugar says it's reached a tentative deal with the union representing striking workers from its Vancouver refinery.
Sugar beet growers seek to expand sector with domestic policy
It wouldn’t stop strikes, but it would recharge Canada’s sugar industry
Reading Time: 4 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – A domestic sugar policy would help kickstart the Canadian and particularly the Albertan sugar industry, says a major player in the sector. The Alberta Sugar Beet Growers want a national domestic sugar policy, which the organization says could lay the foundation for resurgence in the sector. Such a policy would regulate the […] Read more
‘We’ve always taken for granted that the sugar’s always been there’
Sugar shortage highlights beekeeper feed vulnerability, Praire beekeepers say
Reading Time: 4 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Beekeeping groups on the Prairies say it’s a good thing Western Canada’s sugar shortage didn’t happen a few months ago. The bees are now tucked away for the winter, but August and September are prime feeding seasons when beekeepers condition their colonies for winter and natural nectar sources are drying up. “We’ve […] Read more
Sugar beet growers seek to expand sector with domestic policy
It wouldn’t stop strikes, but it would recharge Canada’s sugar industry, says producer group
The Alberta Sugar Beet Growers want a national domestic sugar policy, which the organization says could lay the foundation for resurgence in the sector.
Sierra Leone passes new laws to boost landowners’ rights
Freetown | Reuters — Sierra Leone’s parliament on Monday passed two laws that lawyers say will help boost the rights of rural landowners and women against land grabs by big mining and agribusiness firms. The West African country has a history of sometimes deadly conflict between local communities and foreign companies that have cleared huge […] Read more
‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels
New York | Reuters — Food traders are switching from containers back to dry bulk vessels to transport refined sugar and rice, hoping to avoid shipping delays caused by container shortages and port congestion the industry is calling “containergeddon,” according to traders. Container-based transportation has been hit by sky-high costs and delays amid booming shipping […] Read more