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December 2000:
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12-29-00: Bush nominates ag secretary
12-29-00: Holly Sugar adds millions to Richland County economy
12-29-00: Growers' woes increase in Idaho
12-29-00: Midwestern Sugar Beet Expo coming to Mitchell, Neb.
12-29-00: High turnout for MT, WY meetings to discuss Western Sugar purchase
12-27-00: Beet shares dropping all over
12-26-00: Michigan agriculture looking up for 2001
12-26-00: Imperial Sugar announces plans to restructure debt
12-25-00: N.D. man to help farmers
12-22-00: Company says sugar tainted
12-22-00: Billings may lose sugar refinery
12-22-00: Bush to meet with farm leaders Friday
12-20-00: California's small farmers warn of impending economic doom
12-19-00: American Crystal Sugar balance sheet takes a hit
12-19-00: Top growers honored
12-19-00: Conference set in Billings
12-19-00: Holly Sugar official explains possible Chapter 11 filing
12-18-00: Crystal announces staff changes
12-18-00: Beet growers take major hit
12-18-00: Imperial Sugar announces plans to restructure
12-15-00: Imperial Sugar can't pay debt, weighs Chapter 11 filing
12-15-00: Sugar lobbyists see ethanol as sweet solution
12-14-00: Growers look into buyout of Holly Sugar
12-14-00: Mexican sugar mills resume operations
12-14-00: Imperial Sugar reports wider Q4 loss, weighs Chapter 11
12-14-00: Imperial Sugar reports fiscal 2000 4th quarter results
12-13-00: Low sugar prices hurt beet growers
12-12-00: Crystal names top posts
12-11-00: Critics sour on sweet federal deal for sugar producers
12-11-00: Mexico's De La Calle to handle US sugar talks
12-11-00: Proponent poses questions to organic ag
12-11-00: Agriculture needs a new vision
12-11-00: Farmers wait for window of opportunity
12-08-00: Farmers destroy part of sugar crop
12-08-00: Dangers of Aspartame
12-08-00: Mexico sugar strike declared illegal
12-08-00: Crystal pay is 'on the ragged edge'
12-08-00: Low sugar prices lead to lower payments for Red River Valley
12-07-00: Cooperative looking at possible Holly purchase
12-07-00: Sugar plant emissions raise concerns among citizens
12-07-00: Sugarbeet growers' cooperative outlines financing
12-06-00: Yield offsets low sugar price
12-05-00: Teamwork leads to weekly production record at Holly
12-05-00: Farm prices hold steady
12-04-00: Avoiding a slippery slope
12-04-00: Late harvests threatens beets
12-04-00: A dangerous profession
12-01-00: Mexican sugar industry talks break down, strike continues

November 2000:
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11-30-00: Holly starts preparing for coming year
11-29-00: Striking Domino workers feel bitterness and resolve
11-29-00: Craig says he'll fight for a new farm bill
11-29-00: FDA clears way for Cargill to market natural sweetener
11-29-00: Farmers face hard facts
11-27-00: Federal aid to Montana agriculture exceeds income
11-27-00: Cold weather impacts sugarbeet harvest in Idaho
11-27-00: Easing the farm burden
11-25-00: Feds mull over their sugar mountain
11-25-00: Aid to sugar farmers breeds a bitter battle
11-22-00: Initial sugar beet payments mailed
11-22-00: Plans to purchase Western Sugar
11-22-00: Midwestern sugarbeet Expo Jan. 11-12
11-22-00: Mexico sugar union leader expects strike
11-21-00: Mountains of beets signal season's end
11-20-00: Beet growers await sale details
11-17-00: Tribunal extends sugar beet duty
11-17-00: USDA: Cuba could become important produce supplier
11-17-00: Thousands of sugar workers strike in Mexico
11-16-00: Narrow margins could force compromise
11-16-00: Cold weather helps Sidney area's sugarbeets
11-15-00: Officials urge driving care near Holly
11-14-00: Bitter row over sugar scheme
11-14-00: Use of biobased resources
11-13-00: Idaho 2000 season results in record sugar
11-13-00: WY sugarbeet production decreases
11-13-00: Mexico concludes negotiations with EFTA
11-13-00: Tate & Lyle announce interim results
11-9-00: Tate profits plunge turns shares sour
11-09-00: Tate H1 profits dive, to sell Western
11-08-00: DEQ files suit against Monitor Sugar
11-07-00: Disaster areas eligible for loans
11-07-00: Sugarbeet co-op buying 6 factories
11-07-00: Tribunal decision supports Canadian sugar refiners
11-06-00: US-Mexico sugar talks could be delayed
11-06-00: Ag leader: Women speak up
11-06-00: House passes $7.8 billion Everglades bill
11-06-00: U.S. Sugar cuts tours, cites price for sugar
11-06-00: Growers wait to find outcome of beet harvest
11-06-00: Register now for noxious weed certification
11-06-00: Montana agriculture calendars available
11-03-00: Nebraska, Colorado sugar growers owe money
11-03-00: Region's harvest is all washed up
11-03-00: Emergency farm loans available
11-02-00: Redman, Steinbeisser seek House seat
11-02-00: Final sugar payments made
11-01-00: Ethanol industry asks permission to bid on USDA stored sugar
11-01-00: More rain needed in Minnesota
11-01-00: Farmers face less federal aid

October 2000:
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10-30-00: Sugar growers worry about future
10-30-00: Monitor Sugar seeing tough times
10-30-00: ARi looks at environmentally friendly processing
10-28-00: Aventis says no link between Regent and bee deaths
10-27-00: A scary time for sugar farmers
10-26-00: Bakers urge congress to reject high tariff
10-26-00: Sugar beet harvest nearing completion
10-25-00: Dry conditions continue in southern Minnesota
10-24-00: U.S.-Mexico sugar dispute continues
10-24-00: Baucus announces relief for Montana producers
10-24-00: Mexico defends import duties
10-24-00: Farmers trying to take over sugar company
10-23-00: Stuffed molasses turns into taxing issue in U.S.
10-23-00: MSC firm feels congressional ax on neck
10-23-00: GAO Report: Sugar Program
10-23-00: Irrigation bills clear Senate
10-23-00: Sodden days, better crops?
10-23-00: Technology to make ID sugar more competitive
10-20-00: Crash kills four
10-20-00: Gratiot sugar beet profit picture upbeat
10-20-00: Ag bill helps WY ranchers and farmers
10-20-00: End sought to sugar distortions
10-19-00: MN 7th District: Peterson, Menze differ on farm policy
10-19-00: Local leaders to petition state office
10-19-00: T & L agree on $78m deal for Western
10-18-00: Western Sugar sale imminent
10-18-00: Central MN low topsoil moisture levels
10-17-00: Aventis growing unauthorized GMO in UK
10-17-00: Sugar properties in 4 states apparently changing hands
10-17-00: Man killed at sugar beet piling site
10-17-00: Mexico-US sugar talks back on track
10-17-00: USDA announces 2000 crop
10-17-00: Growers hope for best
10-16-00: 2000 beets looking good to excellent
10-16-00: Freedom to farm
10-13-00: Freeze puts beet harvest at risk
10-13-00: Negotiations with T & L continue
10-12-00: RRV growers are covered
10-12-00: Farmers face budget woes
10-11-00: Russian buying buoys trade, others eyed
10-11-00: Unauthorised GMO grown in UK
10-10-00: Harsh weather taking toll on farm yields
10-10-00: Sugar surplus
10-10-00: Govt. aid to farmers reaches record
10-10-00: New pres, congress to shape 'Freedom To Farm'
10-09-00: New sugar substitute in grocery stores this October
10-09-00: Despite flooding, a good crop in 2000
10-09-00: Seasonal workers hit RRV for beets
10-09-00: Norman County survivor's improbable crop comes in
10-06-00: Growers sign letter of intent to purchase Western
10-06-00: Sugabeet harvest underway
10-06-00: Negotiators agree to farm aid
10-5: SEEDEX, INC. acquired by Florimond-Desprez, Inc.
10-05-00: Sugarbeet growers consider letter of intent
10-05-00: Futures: Russian demand sweetens sugar
10-05-00: Nearly a million tons of sugar dumped
10-04-00: A sweet heap for reapers
10-03-00: Half CA's sugarbeet farmers sinking
10-03-00: Congress nears historic shift in Cuba sanctions
10-03-00: Sugar industry awaits solution
10-03-00: RRV sugar beet harvest in full swing
10-02-00: Sugaronline plans live physical trading 11/1
10-02-00: Taylor sugar company engaged in bitter battle

September 2000:
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09-30-00: $94 million in Fla. sugar forfeited
09-30-00: Sugar producers to default on loans again today
09-30-00: Farmers struggling, but better off than a year ago
09-29-00: Ag manager predicts excellent 2000 crop
09-28-00: Beet farmers caught in insurance snarl
09-27-00: Beets arrive in full force
09-27-00: Mexico/Usa: Sweetener battle rages
09-27-00: US processors could forfeit 400,000 tons more sugar
09-26-00: ASA: Australia cane bailout another barrier
09-26-00: How does the government handle the sugar program?
09-22-00: Growers’ buyout of Western called best chance
09-20-00: Destruction deal not sweet enough
09-19-00: Feasibility study- farmers know soon
09-18-00: USDA announces fiscal 2001 tariff-rate quotas
09-18-00: Fertile ground produces a sweet way of life for Custer farmer
09-18-00: Johnson's plan for farm bill
09-18-00: 35,000 acres of beets likely gone
09-18-00: Sugar program to affect 35,000 acres
09-16-00: USDA offers sugar producers a $100M
09-14-00: British Sugar to cut output by 2 pct
09-14-00: DJ World sugar industry faces major challenges
09-13-00: Sugar co-op predicts above-average crop
09-12-00: With sugar, low price does not hike demand
09-12-00: Sugar trade dereg pressure building
09-11-00: Sweets makers take on the sugar daddies
09-11-00: Sugar co-op pushing for refinery's purchase
09-11-00: Sugar giant cuts 327 workers
09-11-00: Processors forfeit 84 mln lbs beet sugar to USDA
09-08-00: Tests to turn sugar to ethanol being conducted
09-07-00: Reservoir rescue
09-06-00: Risk assessment can lag development of biotech crops
09-06-00: Sugar to cost more globally
09-05-00: Holly Sugar schedules growers night Sept. 7
09-05-00: Growers bid 3.6 percent of acreage to program
09-05-00: Agency partly fixes root rot pay issue
09-05-00: Mexico's new leader worries FL growers
09-05-00: Smell not so sweet to neighbors
09-05-00: Growers default on loans; government gets more sugar
09-01-00: Biotech crops may reduce bird food
09-01-00: Farm-Ranch Museum to host harvest festival

August 2000:
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08-31-00: Crystal begins prepile harvest
08-31-00: Sugar PIK moves ahead despite limitation rules
08-31-00: Many beets will stay in ground
08-31-00: Valley sugar beet growers’ pre-pile harvest under way
08-29-00: MEGA beets
08-29-00: Check beet crops for Lygus bugs
08-28-00: Ag leaders wary of sugar-beet plan
08-28-00: PIK program slowed by uncertainty
08-27-00: Couple are cream of the crop
08-26-00: Deadline nears for sugar PIK program
08-26-00: Friday deadline for sugar beet signup
08-24-00: Grower cooperative pursues feasibility study
08-24-00: Beet growers consider PIK program
08-23-00: Sidney harvest update
08-23-00: Sugar isn't so sweet
08-22-00: AgraQuest named partner for nematode control grant
08-22-00: Sugar coop encourage growers to submit PIK bids
08-22-00: San Joaquin Valley crop briefs
08-21-00: Water case hinges on 2 obscure laws
08-21-00: Flood-prone acres near Red River - land or water?
08-21-00: Sugar dispute between U.S., Mexico grows more bitter
08-20-00: Root samples indicate above normal sugar beet crop
08-20-00: Crystal expects big response to PIK sign-up next week
08-20-00: Growers: block Mexican sugar
08-20-00: USDA announces signup period for PIK program
08-18-00: Mexico seeks NAFTA dispute panel
08-18-00: Health officials say contaminated water...
08-17-00: Sugar talks between Mexico and U.S. break down
08-17-00: Mexico sugar rejects U.S. plans
08-17-00: State officials confirm manure spill 2 weeks ago near Olivia
08-16-00: Rogers Sugar report for quarter ended 6/30/00
08-16-00: Mexico says NAFTA panel request on sugar could come soon
08-16-00: Beet root rot payment remains unresolved
08-15-00: Root rot losses concern beet growers
08-15-00: U.S., Mexico consult domestic industries on sugar proposals
08-15-00: U.S. government getting deeper into sugar business
08-15-00: eXtremeAg.com announces winners of beat-up pickup truck drawing
08-15-00: Thumb farmers lose patience with Mother Nature
08-14-00: Mexico says it plans to keep HFCS duties after new probe
08-14-00: Cercospora fungus fight goes high tech
08-14-00: Grower response to funding feasibility study gratifying
08-13-00: Water issue bubbles
08-13-00: An unwritten tenet of U.S. trade policy
08-11-00: Coverdell's legacy felt at farm symposium
08-11-00: Sugar crop in Thai northeast falls
08-11-00: Barr Lake drained for irrigation
08-10-00: Closing of FINASA (Mexican govt sugar dev bank) authorized
08-09-00: U.S. sugar industry confident in govt aide; bearish on Mexico
08-09-00: U.S.-Mexico sugar talks seen deadlocked
08-09-00: U.S. sweetener group in battle over sugar-obesity link
08-09-00: Farm bureau chief says sugar growers need 'extra assistance'
08-08-00: Manure spill damages sugar beets
08-08-00: Top negotiators agree on goal for U.S.- Mexico sugar talks
08-08-00: Economist sees ethanol as long-term fix for sugar surpluses
08-08-00: Rep. Stenholm emphasizes government role in agriculture
08-08-00: U.S. sweetener producers ranked among world's lowest cost
08-07-00: Sugar beet growers explore buyout of Western Sugar
08-07-00: International sugar experts note lack of free trade progress
08-07-00: Rep. Ewing says help for sugar farmers is appropriate
08-07-00: Utah company forfeits sugar to government
08-07-00: USDA PIK sugar plan may remove 300,000T from mkt-sources
08-06-00: Last of clean-up crew released from hospital
08-04-00: Rocky Mtn sugarbeet growers get strong response for feasibility study
08-04-00: 13 hospitalized after working in sugar beet plant
08-03-00: Sugar payment plan OK’d
08-01-00: ISC reports fiscal 2000 third quarter results
08-01-00: PIK for sugar?

July 2000:
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07-31-00: IGF introduces online crop insurance quoting service
07-29-00: U.S., Mexico sugar negotiations will continue
07-29-00: Western sugar grower co-op?
07-28-00: Growers form cooperative to consider Western Sugar purchase
07-28-00: Farmers pursuing a sweet deal
07-27-00: Talks with Mexico provide no agreement
07-27-00: Sugar PIK program under consideration
07-27-00: Gvt. may pay farmers to plow under beets
07-27-00: Sugar-beet harvest may be thinned
07-26-00: Sugar program undercuts administration's ability
07-26-00: Trend toward agricultural free trade reversing
07-26-00: Sugar officials testify on price-drop
07-26-00: Part of U.S. sugar crop may be burned
07-25-00: Sugar beet crop bouncing back
07-25-00: Bushland experiment station agronomist retires
07-24-00: Robot has sweet tooth
07-23-00: Sweet 75th
07-22-00: Court orders Yahoo to name names
07-21-00: Root samples a surprise
07-21-00: NE, WY fight cercospora leaf spot
07-21-00: Senate saves sugar support program
07-20-00: Sugar farmers applaud senate
07-20-00: ISC wants secret bashers revealed
07-19-00: www.foodstuff.org goes on-line
07-18-00: Sugar review: races to 2-yr highs
07-13-00: Latest U.S. sugar crop estimate seen bearish
07-11-00: US officials to set FY 2001 sugar-import quota by Oct 1
07-10-00: Sugar delay raises doubts on prospects
07-06-00: Forfeiture is 'last resort' for co-op
07-04-00: Sugar cooperative planning to forfeit
07-04-00: Shake-up for sugar looms in cyberspace

June 2000:
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06-29-00: Imperial Sugar Selects ICG Commerce
06-27-00: Sugar beet growers consider buying Michigan Sugar Co.
06-23-00: Insurance agents counting losses from storm
06-19-00: Sugar beets hit bumpy path
06-16-00: Sweet deal for U.S. sugar farmers
06-14-00: NGFA E-Alert on Biotech Foods
06-13-00: Report irks sugar beet growers
06-12-00: Euro trade sees Brazil drought spurring sugar rise
06-10-00: US Farmers wary of Mexico Sugar
06-10-00: Sugar growers in trouble
06-08-00: Tate sees no US sugar lift, sells unit
06-06-00: Nematode damage in sugar beets

May 2000:
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05-30-00: ISC announces reduction in Board
05-30-00: The Sugar Buzz
05-30-00: Farmers leery of rate hikes
05-29-00: Mexican mill sees shrinking sugar sector--report
05-26-00: What's in the $7.1 billion farmer relief plan?
05-25-00: Mexico sugar industry hopes for U.S. market access
05-25-00: CSPI sugar consumption overstated
05-23-00: Novartis unveils new gene marker
05-17-00: Return of sugar beets to West Slope
05-16-00: Mexico to restructure debt at No. 2 sugar mill
05-16-00: Crystal Sugar takes on the big stink
05-15-00: Sugar leaders: Buy likely won't avoid forfeitures
05-15-00: Mont. Dept. of Ag declares crisis exemption for use of Quadris Fungicide
05-11-00: USDA sugar purchase consistent w-Prev Aid
05-10-00: Mexico sugar mill No. 2
05-08-00: UW trap crop featured
05-08-00: Imperial Sugar chooses Silverstream
05-03-00: FDA Announces Refined Regulatory Approach
05-03-00: FDA announces refined regulatory approach
05-03-00: Cheap sugar pushing beet off S.J. Farms
05-01-00: IHK reports fiscal 2000 2nd Quarter

April 2000:
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04-27-00: Big sugar seeks bailout
04-19-00: Sugar official sets record straight on 'Stuffed Molasses' issue
04-18-00: USDA's Glickman: Sugar buy decision unlikely
04-18-00: Easter Bunny's Higher Candy Prices No Fault of Farmers
04-17-00: Sugar beet runoff may be linked to fish kill
04-14-00: Helping a neighbor
04-13-00: Michigan Company takes on Sugar Industry
04-11-00: USDA to decide soon whether to buy sugar-Glickman
04-07-00: US sugar growers optimistic of government buys
04-07-00: Sugarbeet planting off to a good start
04-06-00: Sugar beet plant gets $5 million loan
04-05-00: How low can beet prices go?
04-03-00: 22,000 acres in the Big Horn Basin

March 2000:
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03-31-00: Too much sugar
03-31-00: Sugar beet plant needs millions to survive
03-31-00: Sugarbeet growers' bid to buy plants hits snag
03-31-00: Feds spoon out help for sugar farms
03-31-00: US Sugarbeet Acres Up 1%
03-31-00: ND, MN farmers got bigger, did better
03-31-00: US sugar beet acres up 1%
03-29-00: Tate & Lyle hit by profits warning
03-27-00: Wet beet pulp in cattle rations
03-27-00: Visiting the Hill for Sugar
03-27-00: Plant to Stand vs Thin
03-27-00: PROFIT Begins Research
03-27-00: Production Agriculture a Way of Life
03-27-00: Sugar Beets in the No. Platte Valley
03-27-00: Stuffing the market with sugar
03-27-00: Improve sugarbeet stands
03-27-00: Working with Beets- Galen Herdt
03-27-00: Sugar refiners tour Cuba
03-27-00: Battling Aphanomyces Root Rot
03-27-00: Ten steps to successful trap crops
03-27-00: Starting the season with a center pivot
03-27-00: Battling Aphanomyces Root Rot
03-17-00: No luck for farmers
03-10-00: Farmers Attack Scientific Basis for Porposed Diet Changes
03-02-00: USDA Quota Decision
03-01-00: CBGA Bulletin

February 2000:
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02-18-00: New pest research holds promise
02-15-00: US Sugar loan defaults likely industry wide

January 2000:
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01-06-00: Oregon 1999 Fall Harvest
01-04-00: Sidney Top Growers

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