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The Sidney Sugars Incorporated factory has served the Sidney area since 1925, providing an outlet for farmers to grow and sell sugarbeets. In 2002, American Crystal bought the Sidney factory from Holly Sugar and the Sidney factory became part of the American Crystal Company and took the name Sidney Sugars. Sidney Sugars operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of American Crystal Sugar Company. Each year Sidney Sugars contracts sugarbeet acres with area growers. Not only does this allow producers to grow a high value crop but it also provides empl...
The 2013 Montana/Wyoming Sugar Beet Symposium will be held in Billings at the Big Horn Resort on Wednesday and Thursday, January 9-10, 2013. The symposium will feature top experts from Montana State University, University of Wyoming, North Dakota State University and Kansas State University, the federal Agricultural Research Service (from Sidney and Kimberly, Idaho stations), as well as from private industry. There will also be a trade show with exhibits by many agricultural input suppliers. Wednesday’s program will focus on malt barley p...
The Roundup would like to thank all the businesses that contributed to another successful Harvest Festival: Sidney Sugars for supplying sugar and experienced judges for our Make It With Sugar contest, Finnicum’s Furniture and Applicances, Juli-Ana’s Gifts, Planet Hair, Cooks On Main, Johnson Hardware and Furniture and Farm & Home Supply for providing prizes for our outstanding bakers, Reynolds Market for being a gracious host for the Make It With Sugar contest, Fairview Super Valu and the Powder Keg for providing prizes for the Beet Dec...
The 2013 Montana/Wyoming Sugar Beet Symposium will be held in Billings at the Big Horn Resort on Wednesday and Thursday, January 9-10, 2013. The symposium will feature top experts from Montana State University, University of Wyoming, North Dakota State University and Kansas State University, the federal Agricultural Research Service (from Sidney and Kimberly, Idaho stations), as well as from private industry. There will also be a trade show with exhibits by many agricultural input suppliers. Wednesday’s program will focus on malt barley p...
The 2013 Montana/Wyoming Sugar Beet Symposium will be held in Billings at the Big Horn Resort on Wednesday and Thursday, January 9-10, 2013. The symposium will feature top experts from Montana State University, University of Wyoming, North Dakota State University and Kansas State University, the federal Agricultural Research Service (from Sidney and Kimberly, Idaho stations), as well as from private industry. There will also be a trade show with exhibits by many agricultural input suppliers. Wednesday’s program will focus on malt barley p...
The 2013 Montana/Wyoming Sugar Beet Symposium will be held in Billings at the Big Horn Resort on Wednesday and Thursday, January 9-10, 2013. The symposium will feature top experts from Montana State University, University of Wyoming, North Dakota State University and Kansas State University, the federal Agricultural Research Service (from Sidney and Kimberly, Idaho stations), as well as from private industry. There will also be a trade show with exhibits by many agricultural input suppliers. Wednesday’s program will focus on malt barley p...
The Roundup would like to thank all the businesses that contributed to another successful Harvest festival: Sidney Sugars for supplying sugar and experienced judges for our Make It With Sugar contest, Finnicum’s Furniture and Applicances, Juli-Ana’s Gifts, Planet Hair, Cooks On Main, Johnson Hardware and Furniture and Farm & Home Supply for providing prizes for our outstanding bakers, Reynolds Market for being a gracious host for the Make It With Sugar contest, Fairview Super Valu and the Pow...
After a rocky start which included heat, rain and frost delays, the 2012 beet harvest was able to go full speed until rain and wind shut down several stations October 17 and 18. Sidney Sugars agricultural manager Russ Fullmer reported tremendous tonnage averaging 27 to 28 tons per acre, but a disappointing sugar average of approximately 17.9. “The frost the first week of harvest stopped the sugar, “ Fullmer said. “The plant also uses some of the stored sugar to regrow leaves, reducing the content even more. The sugar content would have conti...
After a rocky start which included heat, rain and frost delays, the 2012 beet harvest was able to go full speed until rain and wind shut down several stations October 17 and 18. Sidney Sugars agricultural manager Russ Fullmer reported tremendous tonnage averaging 27 to 28 tons per acre, but a disappointing sugar average of approximately 17.9. “The frost the first week of harvest stopped the sugar, “ Fullmer said. “The plant also uses some of the stored sugar to regrow leaves, reducing the content even more. The sugar content would have conti...
Beet harvest 2012 began last week, starting with Culbertson on Thursday, followed by Sugar Valley and the factory on Friday. South station openings were delayed due to excessive heat. Plans are to have those open by mid week. All stations were closed over the weekend. Staggering the start dates gives Sidney Sugars’ staff the opportunity to make sure each station is running properly especially with all the new workers each year. The factory needs a couple of stations open in order to start p...
Nestled on the out-skirts of town in sugar beet country with trees, brush and plenty of custom concrete to adorn the front entrance with its circular drive-through, this tri-level home, built in the early 1980s by Ed Deg and partner Wes Smith, had the typical u-shaped kitchen with a peninsula dividing the kitchen and dining room. One would walk into the home directly into the living room with a wall, shutting out the rest of the world to its kitchen - the hub of the home. Couple’s home paved i...
Pictured is Alyxandra Hardy, daughter of Sherry Hardy, winner of the 2011 Roundup Harvest Festival Photo Contest. The theme was “Women In Agriculture: the Unsung Hereos of the Farm. Hardy submitted a photo of a group of women cleaning up sugar beets that had spilled out of an over turned beet truck during harvest. Alyxandra accepted the award of two Richland County Fair packages on her mother’s behalf....
In spite of yo-yo weather that keeps us guessing at tomorrow’s temperatures, sugarbeets have grown well in the past month, and Russ Fullmer, Sidney Sugars agriculture manager, expects this year’s crop will do better than last year’s. “Beets are growing pretty well,” he remarks. “They took off in the warm weather, but they are a little dry. It’s been tough to keep up with the watering with all crops, but the shifts in temperatures haven’t hurt us.” He adds, “A few fields last week got over an in...
Sidney Sugars is pleased to announce that Chad Williams has accepted the position of Production Engineer / Shift Superintendent at Sidney Sugars Incorporated effective Monday, June 4, 2012. In this position, Chad will be responsible for completing independent engineering projects and also managing a production shift. During the beet sugar processing campaign, Chad will direct the shift operations of the factory. During the inter-campaign, he will manage base capital and installation of capital...
3 year contract includes wage and pension increases, health care changes On April 18, 2012, members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union Local 285G (BCTGM) voted to ratify a contract with Sidney Sugars Incorporated (SSI), a beet sugar processing company located in Sidney, MT. The terms of the three-year labor agreement include wage increases of 4% in year one, 3% in year two and 3% in year three. The contract also includes an increase in employee pensions and a change in health care coverage that moves union...
There is a vial of little blue pellets in Barry Jacobsen’s lab. Its contents, a bacterium taken from a few healthy leaves in a northeast Montana sugar beet field overrun with disease, could save farmers around the world millions of dollars each year. Since Jacobsen isolated it in 1994 during a catastrophic Cercospora leaf spot outbreak near Sidney, the bacterium - Bacillus mycoides isolate J, or BmJ - has shown impressive abilities. It has proven effective in fighting a variety of plant d...
In water-limited arid and semiarid regions, water needs to be used efficiently for sustaining irrigated crop yields and that efficiency can vary widely with the type of irrigation system used. But what other impacts do these differing systems have on sustainability? For example, how do they impact key soil nutrients such as carbon and nitrogen? And what of the increased use of strip tillage for sugar beet rotations in the MonDak? How do these different irrigation systems impact soil carbon and nitrogen under strip tillage? These questions and m...
World record sugarbeet grower, Ben Abatti, Jr., Baja Farms, was honored at the California Beet Growers annual meeting for setting a new yield record using a Betaseed, Inc. variety. Baja Farms planted Betaseed’s 4521R sugarbeet variety in a 70-acre field that averaged 78.71 tons per acre, with 15.89% sugar content. Overall, Abatti’s crop produced 25,014 lbs.of sugar per acre, breaking the old record by 500 lbs. Knowing the land and matching it to a variety that works, is key in growing a top crop. “I have used various Betaseed varieties for t...
A project that will develop an advanced biofuel from energy beets and provide growers across North Dakota with a new industrial crop is taking another important step forward, fueled by a significant two-year North Dakota Renewable Energy Council grant. “This project truly is a public-private partnership with the Green Vision Group (GVG), Fargo, and Heartland Renewable Energy, Muscatine IA, plus research by North Dakota State University, to develop the energy beet biofuels industry in North Dakota,” says Cole Gustafson, NDSU Department of Agr...
World record sugarbeet grower, Ben Abatti, Jr., Baja Farms, was honored at the California Beet Growers annual meeting for setting a new yield record using a Betaseed, Inc. variety. Baja Farms planted Betaseed’s 4521R sugarbeet variety in a 70-acre field that averaged 78.71 tons per acre, with 15.89% sugar content. Overall, Abatti’s crop produced 25,014 lbs.of sugar per acre, breaking the old record by 500 lbs. Knowing the land and matching it to a variety that works, is key in growing a top cro...
6J Farms, Terry and Vicky Cayko, along with essential help from Toby Miller and Cayko families Jacquelyn and Chris Free and Jessica Cayko and her two boys, East Fairview, have earned top spot this year in the 246+ acre category of Sidney Sugars Incorporated’s annual top ten recognition awards. Cayko, who has farmed all his life, has been in the Top Ten six times, and has earned top spot twice. Cayko admits the year looked dismal at the start, but as the season progressed, his crop responded t...
6J Farms, Terry and Vicky Cayko, with essential help from Toby Miller and Cayko families Jacquelyn and Chris Free and Jessica Cayko and her two boys, East Fairview, earned top spot this year in the 246+ acre category of Sidney Sugars Incorporated’s annual top ten recognition awards. Cayko, who has farmed all his life, has been in the Top Ten six times, and has earned top spot twice. Cayko admits the year looked dismal at the start, but as the season progressed, his crop responded to sun and m...
Sugars and starches form the basic building blocks of life. With the appearance of the first leaves, all green-leaved plants begin to manufacture their own food by converting the sun’s energy into chemical energy. Plants do this by combining air molecules and water molecules with the energy they receive from the sun to produce simple sugars. This process, called photosynthesis, enables the plants to make these simple sugars. Some green-leaved plants produce more than simple sugars. The sugarbeet, one of these plants, goes all out to produce m...
The process of irrigating and harvesting sugar beets has come a long way since its beginnings in the area. Thanks in part to some local and rather innovative farmers, improvements made to these somewhat primitive machines now make the sugar beet harvest the production it is today....
Although growers experienced a tough growing season this year, Mother Nature rewarded their perseverance by providing good weather for sugarbeet harvest. Growers had to wait an extra week before starting harvest due to warm temperatures, but once they began bringing in the crop, they had uninterrupted digging. “We finished on the 24th of October, with Savage the last station to complete harvest,” says Russ Fullmer, Sidney Sugars agricultural manager. “We had beautiful weather, the beets came...
