Reducing nitrogen rates in sugar beet production may be possible without sacrificing yield, and early results from on-farm ...

A California judge said this week that the latest round of "Roundup Ready" sugar beet seeds likely shouldn't have been planted, the newest development in an ongoing legal battle over the use of ...

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BLACKFOOT, Idaho — Doug Evans likes the looks of his beets and those that other farmers in his region produced. In the relatively high-altitude growing area, word was that sugar content “started off a ...

We hope that timely and meaningful economic aid will provide a lifeline as farmers head into the fields for spring planting ...

The Northwest sugar beet harvest is finishing strong, thanks to a stretch of cooperative weather. “Favorable weather conditions with minimal precipitation have contributed to the successful harvest ...

POCATELLO — USDA’s Feb. 20 announcement that the federal government will provide $150 million in assistance to American sugar beet and sugar cane farmers came as welcome news to Idaho’s 400-plus sugar ...

A Fargo-based energy company is moving forward with plans for the nation's first-ever beet ethanol plant - the first step in an ambitious plan to turn one of the Red River Valley's top crops into a ...

With our sugar consumption likely to rise with Halloween candy piling up, we look at the history of sugar and why California’s last sugar beet plant is leaving the state. Nob Hill Foods to shut ...

Sugarbeet seeds got into the ground this spring on schedule across U.S. growing regions as a warm, dry spring allowed farmers to rapidly plant the crop. The same weather conditions, though, combined ...

Both cane and beet sugar are harvested from plants and used to produce sucrose, which is then refined into a white granulated sugar, brown sugar, or molasses. Cane and beet sugar are chemically ...