Industrial processing to deliver high-quality commercial seed includes removing chemical inhibitors of germination, and is essential to produce fresh sprouts, achieve vigorous crop establishment, and ...

Left: Beet seedlings in ‘conetainers’ await vernalization for rapid-cycle seed production. Mitch McGrath is research geneticist with the USDA-ARS Sugarbeet & Bean Research Unit, Michigan State ...

Sugar beet growers in the West received a welcome reprieve last week from financial ruin when U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White denied a request for a preliminary injunction that would have banned ...

FARGO, N.D. -- As February slips toward March, sugar beet farmers in the Red River Valley still face "massive uncertainty" about whether they'll be planting Roundup Ready sugar beets in 2011. The ...

A group promoting the idea of growing and processing sugar beets into ethanol and other biochemicals says it will wait until late June to form a grower-controlled group. Blaine Schatz, director of the ...

Red orbs are rising out of the soil in my garden, demanding to be pulled. I will pull them, but not all at once. Beets can remain in place for weeks — even months — to come if leaves or straw are ...

U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White Tuesday denied a request for a preliminary injunction against using Monsanto’s Roundup Ready sugar beet seed during the upcoming planting season. The ruling ...

A record sugar beet harvest likely will keep Michigan Sugar processing plants working until the end of March. Keith Kalso, agricultural manager for Michigan Sugar Co. at the Croswell facility, said ...

Sugar beet drilling is racing to a close in the current dry weather with higher beet prices and the availability of a key virus yellows seed treatment prompting more optimism among beet growers and ...