This spring, while creating plans for a project, Amalgamated Sugar employees discovered a large colony of Swallows nesting on the Twin Falls factory property.
As new technology develops in farming it typically allows many changes to take place.
For generations urban sprawl into America’s farmland has been felt all across the nation. Areas of Utah, Arizona and California have experienced heavy urban sprawl over the past 30 years.
Last week, Amalgamated Sugar’s Agriculture Department hosted two Field Days at research plots located in Dry Lakes, south of Nampa, ID and Suchan Farm, east of Paul, ID.
On June 19, the 43rd Annual Union County Crops and Conservation Tour was held in La Grande, OR and the surrounding area. The half-day bus tour visited selected sites across Union County in order to show tour-goers firsthand what production agriculture looks like in the Grande Ronde Valley.
Recently, Maria Alvarez, the Sugar Warehouse Manager at Amalgamated Sugar’s Nampa factory was interviewed via Skype by the Sugar Association as a part of a video campaign that is currently in development.
Every year since 1990, Peregrine Falcons have been nesting at Amalgamated Sugar’s Nampa facility. The legacy continues this year, as Peregrine Falcons have returned and have been sighted on top of Nampa’s sugar storage silos.
On April 4, 2019, the Idaho FFA Foundation hosted the 4th Annual Friends of the Idaho FFA Banquet at the Canyon Crest Event Center in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Earlier this week, President & CEO of Amalgamated Sugar, John McCreedy, and Idaho Sugarbeet Growers Association President, Randall Grant, had the opportunity to present to Idaho’s House and Senate Agriculture Committees regarding the current state of the Pacific Northwest’s sugarbeet industry.
Just as humans need food as our fuel, the sugarbeet plant makes sugar for fuel which is continually needed to stay alive. This process to
