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 ...

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 ...

Since seeds are genetic packages, it is perhaps unsurprising that a battle erupted when some of these farmers started growing genetically engineered sugar beets a few years ago. The beets have a ...

For now, though, farmers in the co-op ... Astrup said it would be hard to ramp up the supply of seeds and chemicals for the sugar beet producers in the co-op to do so. “But at the end of ...

Robert Law, a mixed farmer who grows sugar beet at Chrishall Grange Farm ... application for the emergency use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment in 2023, should it be required, subject to the ...

"In our region, we lost 15% of the (sugar beet) area (this year)," said Alexandre Pele, who has a 240 hectare farm in central France. "I have struggled to meet volume commitments with the sugar ...

The Shepherd farmer was bullish on sugar and bullish on the cooperative ... Growers are still waiting for beet seed to be booked. Cayko said several Montana-Dakota growers signed up to grow ...

The Government has refused to allow the emergency use of a banned pesticide on sugar beet to protect bees and other ...

Farmers were weeks away from sowing beet ... Because they're typically administered by coating the sugar beet seeds, neonicotinoids are distributed to all tissues of a growing plant.

FARGO — The full stockpile harvest is officially open across the Fargo area for sugar beet farmers. The early planting season, with flooding and followed by a record dry fall, has kept farmers ...