MOORHEAD A legal challenge to Roundup Ready sugar beet seed could delay the planting of the biotech beets up to two years and could create a big mess for the region's seed and chemical industries in ...

University of Wyoming Extension will host its WESTI Ag Day conference Tuesday, Feb. 3, in Worland. This all-day conference is ...

Sugarbeets are a relatively young crop compared to small grains. As the industry continues to innovate, an Extension expert says controlling for changing environmental challenges will be key.

Advances in technology have drastically changed the way the sugar beet is planted, grown, harvested and the beet itself. Beets now don’t have to be thinned, a labor-intensive job done by hand years ...

Genetically modified sugar beets are harvested earlier this year south of Grand Forks, Minn. Nearly all sugar beet producers have converted to Roundup Ready beets, but a judge's decision to require an ...

Sugar beets were big news last week−;under the heads of science, business and politics. Beets might long ago have supplied the U.S. with all the sugar it needs but for one stubborn fact−sugar-beet ...

Could a federal judge in San Francisco who has already found the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) lacking when it comes to making sure genetically modified sugar beets are safe end up blocking ...

Dave Wilkins/Capital Press Sugar beets are harvested Sept. 18 near Murtaugh, Idaho, for Grant-Hagan Farms. Idaho farmers are expected to produce 5.56 million tons of beets this year, a 54 percent ...

You probably didn’t notice the change in your Hersey kisses this Christmas season: They were made without beet sugar. But it’s a change that could dramatically alter one of Minnesota’s big ...

Red River Valley sugar beet farmers will be able to plant genetically modified sugar beets again this spring after a San Francisco judge denied a request to ban them. Judge Jeffrey White, a federal ...

At issue are seeds developed by St. Louis-based Monsanto Co., used to grow about 95 percent of the sugar beet crop. The seeds are engineered to withstand the weed killer Roundup, allowing farmers to ...

Sugar beet is a type of root vegetable that is grown primarily for sugar production. It belongs to the same family as the table beet, but it has higher sugar content, making it valuable for the ...