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Steve Kelly among the rows of sugar beets on his Greeley, Colorado, farm. He says GMO seeds allow him to grow more beets on less land. Colorado farmer Steve Kelly brushes aside a small mound of ...
"We're kind of stuck in limbo," said Terry Histed, a sugar beet farmer and Bay County Farm Bureau president. "Typically, we'd be ordering our seed right now, or the late part of December, actually.
Sugar beet growers have found themselves between the proverbial hard place and a really big rock.The rock is a federal judge in San Francisco who has banned the planting of genetically modified sugar ...
There was, of course, a reason for Monsanto’s success with sugar beets — and not just because it was able to leverage its market power to encourage farmers to adopt the new seed.Once again, it ...
The state’s sugar beet growers say it will be difficult to find enough conventional seeds for their crops after a federal judge revoked government approval of genetically modified seeds. U.S ...
Farmers, who would normally order their seeds around now for ... a federal judge in San Francisco ordered that 256 acres of baby beet plants intended to make seeds for future sugar beet crops be ...
It rises each fall in the midst of northern Colorado’s farmlands, a mini-mountain that from a distance looks like a pile of dirt. About 30,000 pounds of sugar beets tumble out of each truck that ...
At Oregon Sugar Beet Seed Farms, It's Organic Agriculture Vs. Genetic Engineering In Oregon, a battle has erupted between farmers growing genetically engineered sugar beets and organic farmers who ...
The application to use the pesticide had been made by British Sugar and the National Farmers’ Union, as a seed treatment for ...
Felton sugar beet farmer honored for 50 years in the field On Wednesday, Oct. 5, traffic was heavy out in the country, with combines in the bean fields and lifters in the beet fields.
Farmers were weeks away from sowing beet seeds treated with neonicotinoids when Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau on Monday announced that France would no longer circumvent EU laws that have ...