Sugar beets, which are mostly water, use 40 percent less water for growth than corn does, and require about half as much land, according to oil-industry website OilPrice.com.

thinking about building plants and making its own ethanol in order ... which is now a part of Chevron, made ethanol in an old sugar-beet refinery in Indiana from 1980 until 1995.

In our January report, NFU Sugar commercial and market insight manager Arthur Marshall looks at the effect of currency ...