date:Jan 28, 2013
tons, 22 percent more than in 2011.
Minnesota is the nation's leader in beet-sugar production, and home to Moorhead-based American Crystal Sugar Co., the single largest U.S. beet-sugar maker. With plants in Crookston, East Grand Forks and Moorhead -- and two more in North Dakota -- the farmer-owned cooperative churns out about 13 percent of the nation's refined sugar.
Crystal Sugar expects sugar production from its 2012 crop to rise 34 percent over a year ago, the company said in a recent repo