Application had been made to use neonicotinoid thiamethoxam to protect sugar beet against damaging virus-carrying aphids.

Following Defra’s decision to deny sugar beet growers emergency neonicotinoid seed treatments to combat virus yellows, farmers are reminded of biological ...

Following DEFRA’s decision to deny the application for emergency authorisation to use the neonicotinoid-based Cruiser SB, farmers are being reminded of alternatives to help manage aphids and the ...

People love the taste of sugar beets' primary byproduct: white sugar. Soilborne cyst nematodes—parasitic, microscopic ...

Virus yellows risk in sugar beet is reducing following cold weather in January and early February, according to the British Beet Research Organisation’s ...

Are sugar beets the new acai? Starring in two hot novels in the past six months suggests that the Minnesota vegetable is on a hot streak. Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red” was set in a town dependent ...

Treating the seeds with Cruiser SB is the only way ... it can produce flowers and so it does not attract pollinators. Sugar beet farmers now have no way of protecting crops from insect pests ...

The Government has refused to allow the emergency use of a banned pesticide on sugar beet to protect bees and other pollinators. The application to use the pesticide had been made by British Sugar and ...

The theme of the meeting was “Capitol engagement, confronting the challenges before us,” and included speakers on the farm bill, pesticides and sugar trade. Nearly 70% of the members of the ...

“We must remember that any seed treatment would only have been ... home to the majority of around 3,000 sugar beet farmers and over 100,000 hectares of UK farmland devoted to beet production. " ...

The Government has refused to allow the emergency use of a banned pesticide on sugar beet to protect bees and other pollinators. The application to use the pesticide had been made by British Sugar ...