Cooperative asks growers to leave additional acres in the field through volunteer program Nov. 10, 2021 BAY CITY, MICHIGAN – Michigan Sugar Company officials know this year’s sugarbeet harvest is going to set a record in terms of tons per acre. By how much this year’s numbers surpass the previous [...]
Permanent piling gets underway Oct. 22; officials predicting a yield of 34 tons per acre BAY CITY – As Michigan Sugar Company begins the full harvest of its 2021 sugarbeet crop on Friday, Oct. 22, co-op officials are predicting a potential record yield of 34 tons per acre, up from [...]
VP of Operations: ‘Investing in employees … is part of our DNA here’ When Will Rabun joined the Factory Electrician/Instrumentation Technician Apprenticeship Program at Michigan Sugar Company in May 2020, he was looking to carve out a better life for himself and his family. Rabun, 31, planted his career at [...]
Cooperative will produce up to 80 million more pounds of sugar annually from molasses MONITOR TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN – Michigan Sugar Company today announced plans to invest more than $65 million to construct a desugarization facility at its factory located at 2600 S. Euclid Ave. in Bay County’s Monitor Township (commonly [...]
Kenna Karst of Frankenmuth, Raven Wieland of Pinconning crowned Queen’s Court Attendants BAY CITY, MICHIGAN – Ally Kemp of Unionville was crowned the 2021 Michigan Sugar Queen during a ceremony held Friday, June 18, at Michigan Sugar Company’s headquarters at Uptown Bay City. Kemp, 19, is a graduate of Unionville-Sebewaing [...]
Michigan Sugar Company has launched a redesigned brand website at www.pioneersugar.com. The site includes information about our pure, all-natural white granulated, Golden Light Brown and Dark Brown, and Confectioners Powdered Pioneer Sugar, as well as profiles about our grower-owners, our farm-to-table story, and a helpful directory of retail locations where [...]
Artist’s work is first step in upgrades to Aunt Sugar’s Farm & Uncle Pickle’s Barn gallery SAGINAW, MICHIGAN – A new mural that helps tell the story of agriculture in Michigan and the Great Lakes Bay Region is now a permanent part of the Mid-Michigan Children’s Museum. The mural, painted [...]
Caro native says he has no plans to retire anytime soon By Rob Clark, Director of Communications and Community Relations CARO, MICHIGAN – “Extended family.” That’s what Jim Kurish calls his co-workers at Michigan Sugar Company’s sugarbeet processing factory in Caro. And as he celebrates his 50th year of employment [...]
Cooperative sliced 4.2 million tons of beets, will produce nearly 1.3 billion pounds of sugar BAY CITY, MICHIGAN – Michigan Sugar Company has concluded its 2020-2021 sugarbeet slicing campaign at its factories in Bay City, Caro, Croswell, and Sebewaing. This year’s campaign started in mid-August and wrapped up the week [...]
By Rob Clark, Director of Communications and Community Relations When Jim Martin was a kid, he loved to tear stuff apart to see how it worked before putting it back together. He carried that same level of curiosity into his professional career, working first as an engineer for General Motors [...]
