Sugarbeet Flashback (May 1981): What is in the future for the sugar industry?
The sugar industry met a crossroads in the early 1980s. This article published in the 1981 issue of The Sugarbeet Grower magazine outlines what the future of the industry may look like moving forward.
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The sugar industry met a crossroads in the early 1980s. This article published in the 1981 issue of The Sugarbeet Grower magazine outlines what the future of the industry may look like moving forward.
Inclusion of a sugar program in general agriculture legislation, now being considered by Congress, is “vitally important to consumer interests and essential for the economic survival of domestic sugar producers,” according to David C. Carter, president of the U.S. Beet Sugar Association.
Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative hires vice president of government affairs
Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative, a shareholder-owned producer of refined sugar and sugar products, has hired Jeffrey Rustvang to be the vice president of government affairs.
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Agweek Staff Reports | 8:00 am, May 13, 2021 ×
Renville, Minnesota-based Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative (SMBSC), announced it has hired Jeffrey Rustvang to be the vice president of government affairs.
Renville, Minn.-based Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative has hired Jeffrey Rustvang to be the vice president of government affairs.
David Bieging, SMBSC’s Washington, D.C. liaison, will be retiring in December 2021 after 21 years with the cooperative. Rustvang and Bieging will work together on the transition into Bieging’s retirement.
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