Stan Parker:
In February, the beet processing facility and nearby Sidney, Montana announced it would close for good. Spelling the end of an era here on the lower Yellowstone River Valley, where for almost a century, sugar beets have been a fixture of the economy and the local identity.
No factory means no sugar beets. Trucking them is just too expensive to take them somewhere else. And efforts by locals to buy the plants were unsuccessful. After years of fraught, contract negotiations between owners and growers. The news wasn't a total surprise.
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