Michigan Sugar Company

SCHOLARSHIPS

Michigan Sugar Company is proud to offer several scholarships to students in our sugarbeet growing areas. Some scholarships are administered by Michigan Sugar Company and others are by the individual college or university.

Albert Flegenheimer Memorial Scholarship
Phil Brimhall Memorial Scholarship
The Guy Beals Memorial 4-H Scholarship
Michigan Sugar Queen Scholarship
Big Chief Sugar Hotel Restaurant / Resort Management Scholarship
Big Chief Scholarship
Michigan Sugar Scholarship for Honor Students

YOUTH SUGARBEET PROJECT

Designed specifically for youth in the sugarbeet producing areas of Michigan, the Youth Project seeks to promote education and interest in sugarbeets. The program is for all youths who wish to participate in a supervised sugarbeet project sponsored by Michigan Sugar Company.

SUGAR NUTRITION FACTS

Today's food labels provide detailed information about carbohydrates and sugars in processed foods. Here we describe where to find this information and how consumers can use it in shopping and menu planning.

GROWING SUGARBEETS

Sugarbeets are an important cash crop for Michigan farmers and also provides jobs and contributes to the local economy. Sugarbeets are grown mostly in the thumb of Michigan and around Saginaw. Michigan Sugar Company is a grower owned cooperative meaning that the growers own the company. The Michigan Sugar Cooperative has approximately 1,250 farmer-members who grow sugarbeets on 175,000 acres of land each year. The sugarbeets are then processed into sugar at factories located in Bay City, Sebewaing, Caro and Croswell.

PRODUCING SUGAR

Processing a sugarbeet into pure granulated Pioneer and Big Chief brand sugar requires a lot of equipment and energy as well as the skill of our employees. The process consists of a series of physical and chemical separations with the object being to preserve the natural sugar and remove all other materials. Following is a brief description of the unit operations, their purpose and how they relate to each other, as the sugarbeet becomes sugar.