The 49th International Sugarbeet Institute will be on March 16 and 17, 2011, at the Fargodome in Fargo, N.D. This annual event is North America’s largest sugarbeet trade show.
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 Construction of the Louisiana
Sugar Refining (LSR) cane sugar
refinery at Gramercy, La Left: Construction of the Louisiana Sugar Refining (LSR) cane sugar refinery at Gramercy, La., continues to progress. The refinery, which is scheduled for completion by the summer of 2011, is expected to employ
about 150 people. When operational, it will refine approximately 75% of the raw sugar from cane grown in Louisiana. The new facility will have an annual refining capacity of about one million tons of sugar.  Grant Stevenson of Paul, Idaho Syngenta recently announced Grant Stevenson of Paul, Idaho, as the first recipient of the Syngenta Sugarbeet Scholarship. Stevenson, a freshman at the College of Southern Idaho studying agri-business, was selected from a pool of applicants to receive the $5,000 award. The scholarship recognizes a student pursuing a career in agriculture who lives in or is attending school in a sugarbeet-growing state. This is the first year of this scholarship, a joint effort between Syngenta’s Hilleshog® Sugarbeet Seed, Syngenta Seedcare™ and Syngenta Crop Protection.
The 35th general meeting of the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists is scheduled for March 2-5, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, N. Mex.
The 49th International Sugarbeet Institute will be on March 16 and 17, 2011, at the Fargodome in Fargo, N.D. This annual event is North America’s largest sugarbeet trade show.
The 2011 Michigan/Ontario Sugarbeet Research Reporting Session is scheduled for January 27 at the Doubletree Hotel/Conference Center in Bay City. This fifth annual reporting session will cover current sugarbeet research being conducted in the Great Lakes region. Registration is required.
Great Western History Book Available After Second Printing ~ Around The Sugar Beet Industry12/29/2010 A second printing of Footprints in the Sugar: A History of the Great Western Sugar Company has been completed, and copies are now available. The first printing of the 848-page volume sold out in 13 months, prompting Hamilton Bates Publishers to commission a second.
 Greg Richards ~ Tom Newcomb American Crystal Sugar Company announced two district agronomy manager changes, effective as of July.
Greg Richards, the company’s former ag strategy development manager, is now agronomy manager for the Moorhead and Hillsboro factory districts. Richards, who has been with American Crystal for 21 years, is an agronomy graduate of North Dakota State University. He was senior agriculturist prior to becoming the co-op’s ag strategy development manager.  Don Carson Donald Carson, executive vice president of Florida Crystals Corporation and its parent, Fanjul Corporation, was named “Sugar Man of the Year 2009” during a May luncheon of the Sugar Club in New York City.
Carson is the 52nd recipient of the prestigious Dyer Memorial Award, named after the founder of B.W. Dyer & Company, a 107- year-old brokerage company in sweeteners and foods. How many ways can Poncho Beta seed-applied insecticide make a sugarbeet producer’s world sweeter? With the Sweeter World Sweepstakes, there are now three ways, says Bayer CropScience: (1) better stand counts and more recoverable sugar; (2) a chance to win a trip to the 2011 American Sugarbeet Growers Association (ASGA) annual meeting in Tucson, Ariz.; and (3) a chance to win an Apple iPad®.
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