In 1924, railroad tracks at the factory site made a factory possible in Sidney, Montana. In January of 1925, the factory, named Midland Sugar Company, was built in Sidney, Montana. The name was later changed to Holly Sugar Corporation. In the same year 8,111 acres contracted; 58,592 tons of beets sliced; daily capacity 1,200 tons of beets; 127,433 100 pound bags of sugar produced. October 7 of 2002, American Crystal Sugar Company, headquartered in Moorhead, Minnesota, purchased the Holly Sugar factory from Imperial Sugar Company and named it Sidney Sugars Incorporated.