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 ...

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 ...

FOXHOME, Minn. — Sugarbeet growers have a new weapon against their No. 1 nemesis in recent years, the fungus cercospora. New sugarbeet seed varieties resistant to cercospora leaf spot disease were ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

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 ...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) —Sugar beet processing continues a tradition more than a century old in the Magic Valley, with Amalgamated Sugar employing 3,000 people across Idaho and processing close ...

Whether you love beets or hate them, you probably haven't given them as much thought as Irwin Goldman. A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Goldman is also former chair of the ...

Take a good look at a beet seed and you might think of a miniature mace wielded by a medieval mouse. Or maybe something more modern: a Grape-Nut (yes, the cereal). In any case, the time is almost nigh ...

"As somebody who was born and raised in south Kildare, whose uncle was a sugar beet farmer for many years, I greatly lament the loss of the sugar beet industry," said agriculture minister Martin ...