Colorado farmer Steve Kelly brushes aside a small mound of dry yellow dirt to reveal a sugar beet seed that’s no larger than a peppercorn. It seems… ...

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 ...

The ruling had a widespread impact since nearly all the nation's sugar beets come from the genetically altered seed, and farmers had worried the USDA wouldn't finish its work in time for spring ...

White tops of sugar beets stick out of the ground at the Seaworth's sugar beet farm in Wellington, November 02, 2016. The sugar beets are ready to be harvasted. RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2015 - Not unlike the long-term laboratory and field successes in improving corn and soybeans, American scientists, sugar cooperatives, seed companies, farmers and others have ...

The Post-Dispatch criticizes Roy Blunt for backing a provision in the recent appropriations bill that will benefit farmers ("Sen. Sneaky," April 10). The amendment would allow farmers to harvest ...

Sugar beet crops have been ravaged by virus yellows during the 2020-21 season – prompting some farmers to stop growing the crop. Yields have been down by as much as 80%, causing some growers to ...

British Sugar has earmarked £12m over three years to partially compensate growers who lose sugar beet due to virus yellows. But the scheme only covers up to 45% of the loss, with compensation ...

Colorado farmer Steve Kelly brushes aside a small mound of dry yellow dirt to reveal a sugar beet seed that’s no larger than a peppercorn. It seems insignificant, but the seed is different from what ...