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 ...

If the ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White sticks, many of those farmers feel it might be cheaper to pay the fine for not growing beets – as Western has done in the past – than planting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warm, dry conditions spurred quick sugarbeet planting in the U.S. this spring. But the same conditions, combined with frost ...

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 ...

Svalbard is often described as a remote, frozen wasteland. For conspiracy theorists, early visits to the Global Seed Vault by billionaires such as Bill Gates and George Soros, and representatives from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Any seed treatment will only be used ... in fighting the disease and ensuring Britain’s sugar beet growers continue to have viable farm businesses. However, environmental charities said it ...

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