A Fargo-based energy company is moving forward with plans for the nation's first-ever beet ethanol plant - the first step in an ambitious plan to turn one of the Red River Valley's top crops into a ...

The need for producing environmentally friendly fuel alternatives to displace the use of petroleum in the U.S. has scientists at many research universities studying the feasibility of potential ...

BRASILIA, March 11 (Reuters) - Brazil will pitch boosting tax-free sugar exports to the United States in talks in Washington, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as the South American ...

FIVE POINTS, Calif. (AP) – Amid the vast almond orchards and grape fields that surround Five Points in California’s Central Valley, a once-dominant crop that has nearly disappeared from the state’s ...

GRAFTON, N.D. -- An Iowa man who a year ago spoke to Red River Valley farmers about supplying sugar beets to make ethanol in a mothballed Alchem Ltd. corn ethanol plant in Grafton, N.D., has had his ...

LaRue Sutliff shows one of the tanks that has sat in his garage since the early 1980s, when he was awarded a grant from the federal government to produce ethanol from fodder beets. S. John Wilkin/The ...

Energae LP, the group planning to reopen the former Alchem Ltd. ethanol plant in Grafton, N.D., will conduct a meeting at noon Friday for sugar beet growers. The meeting will be at Marketplace on ...

FARGO, N.D. -- A North Dakota group plans to open a test plant that would turn dryland sugar beets into ethanol, with hopes of building a dozen processing facilities throughout the state. Officials ...

Sugar beet pulp is the fibrous residue remaining after extraction of sucrose from sugar beets. Rich in cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin, it offers an abundant source of fermentable carbohydrates ...