Today’s cultivated sugarbeets are derived from wild species of Beta, and these plants possess a natural characteristic where two or more flowers occur as fused clusters to produce multigerm seedballs.

Sugar beets were big news last week−;under the heads of science, business and politics. Beets might long ago have supplied the U.S. with all the sugar it needs but for one stubborn fact−sugar-beet ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D — From the farm to the factory, sugarbeet production has become more profitable and efficient during the nearly 40 years that have passed since Mark Anfinrud began working in the ...

AT a recent meeting of the Sigma Xi Society of the University of Colorado Dr. W. W. Robbins, botanist to the Great Western Sugar Co., read a paper on beet-seed production. Dr. Robbins related that so ...

American Crystal Sugar Co.'s board of directors decided late this afternoon to go with Roundup Ready beet seed this year, despite the threat posed by a federal court challenge mounted by opponents of ...

You probably didn’t notice the change in your Hersey kisses this Christmas season: They were made without beet sugar. But it’s a change that could dramatically alter one of Minnesota’s big ...

The Roundup Ready seeds could potentially contaminate the seed supply of organic table beets and chard, "so there wouldn't be any more organic beet and chard seed anywhere," Stearns said, and organic ...

MOORHEAD -- Red River Valley sugar beet growers are evaluating a federal judge's decision that could overturn the approval of the popular Roundup Ready sugar beets. The judge at Grants Pass, Ore., on ...

Dave Wilkins/Capital Press Sugar beets are harvested Sept. 18 near Murtaugh, Idaho, for Grant-Hagan Farms. Idaho farmers are expected to produce 5.56 million tons of beets this year, a 54 percent ...

PARIS, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The French sugar beet crop area is set to fall to a 14-year low this year despite high prices, with farmers deterred by potential crop damage because of pesticide ...