MOORHEAD, Minn. -- Aldrich "Al" Bloomquist, a key player in turning American Crystal Sugar into a grower-owned cooperative -- and sugar beets into a nearly $5 billion industry for North Dakota and ...

Longtime Sugar Industry Leader — And Founder of The Sugarbeet Grower — Passed Away in August In the years following his retirement in the early 1990s and well into the 2000s, a tall, slender man — ...

Bloomquist, credited with growing region's sugar industry, dies at 91 MOORHEAD - Aldrich "Al" Bloomquist, a key player in turning American Crystal Sugar into a grower-owned cooperative - and sugar ...

Once in a while, somebody comes along who is a true visionary. Al Bloomquist was such a somebody. Bloomquist imagined what the sugar beet business could be in the Red River Valley and he came up with ...

MOORHEAD - Aldrich "Al" Bloomquist , a key player in turning American Crystal Sugar into a grower-owned cooperative - and sugar beets into a nearly $5 billion industry for North Dakota and Minnesota - ...