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 ...

Sugar beet seed production in Italy is largely situated ... over to a third party for the final process prior to delivery on farm,” he adds. Mr Munnery believes it demonstrates the need for ...

The finding of plants that produced single-germ seeds was an enormous benefit to ... important that the ASSBT (American Association of Sugar Beet Technologists) created an award known as "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 ...

Just now the sugar-beet farmers are busy preparing to clean up ... Much waste attends the raising of sugar beets. Seed that costs $3 an acre is only one-fifth utilized. The tops which are cut ...

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 ...

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 ...