Beet Producers and Associations

• Amalgamated Sugar Company
  Amalgamated Sugar is a farmer-owned beet sugar cooperative operating three sugarbeet processing facilities in Idaho. Grower associations include Elwyhee Beet Growers Association, Idaho Sugar Beet Growers Association, and Nyssa-Nampa Sugarbeet Growers Association.
• American Crystal Sugar Company
  American Crystal Sugar Company is a farmer-owned beet sugar cooperative operating six sugarbeet processing facilities in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana. Grower association is Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association. Sidney Sugars is a sugarbeet processing company in Montana that is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Crystal Sugar Company. Grower association is the Montana-Dakota Sugar Beet Growers Association.
• American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists
  The American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists is a society facilitating the exchange of technology information in beet sugar processing and sugarbeet production.
• American Sugarbeet Growers Association
  The American Sugarbeet Growers Association represents 10,000 U.S. sugarbeet growers in 11 states. ASGA is the federation of all U.S. sugarbeet grower organizations.
• Beet Sugar Development Foundation
  The Beet Sugar Development Foundation supplies research and development and educational programs to the beet sugar industry.
• Michigan Sugar Company
  Michigan Sugar Company is a farmer-owned beet sugar cooperative operating four sugarbeet processing facilities in Michigan. Growers are represented through Michigan Sugar Company’s Board of Directors.
• Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative
  Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative is a farmer-owned beet sugar cooperative operating a sugarbeet processing facility in North Dakota. Growers are represented through Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative’s Board of Directors.
• Sidney Sugars
  Sidney Sugars is a sugarbeet processing company in Montana that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the farmer-owned American Crystal Sugar Company. Grower association is the Montana-Dakota Sugar Beet Growers Association.
• Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative
  Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative is a farmer-owned beet sugar cooperative operating a sugarbeet processing facility in Minnesota. Growers are represented through Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative’s Board of Directors. Spreckels Sugar Company, located in Brawley, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative. Spreckels grower association is the California Beet Growers Association.
• Spreckels Sugar Company
  Spreckels Sugar operates a sugarbeet processing facility in California and a beet seed processor in Wyoming. Spreckels Sugar is a wholly owned subsidiary of the farmer-owned Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative. Grower association is the California Beet Growers Association.
• Western Sugar Cooperative
  Western Sugar Cooperative is a farmer-owned beet sugar cooperative operating four sugarbeet processing facilities in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. Grower associations includes the Colorado Sugarbeet Growers Association, NEBCO Beet Growers Association, Nebraska Sugarbeet Growers Association, Big Horn Basin Beet Growers Association, Big Horn County Sugar Beet Growers Association, Southern Montana Sugarbeet Growers Association, and the Wheatland Beet Growers Association.
• Wyoming Sugar Company
  Wyoming Sugar Cooperative is a farmer-owned beet sugar cooperative operating a sugarbeet processing facility in Wyoming. Growers are represented by Wyoming Sugar Company’s Board of Directors.
• United States Beet Sugar Association
  The United States Beet Sugar Association is a government affairs and industry trade association representing the nine manufacturers of beet sugar in the U.S. These nine firms operate 21 facilities that process sugarbeets which are grown in eleven states. The U.S. beet sugar processing industry is 100% farmer-owned cooperative in structure, and every factory operates with organized union workers.