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.
The forced Japanese-Canadian farmers of the Second World War
Manitoba’s sugar beet farms drew on displaced Japanese-Canadians from B.C. during the Second World War
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
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
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.