Sugar beets become monstrous on a Minnesota farm in new novel
In Margie Sarsfield's "Beta Vulgaris," a woman who works on a Minnesota beet farm gradually loses touch with reality.
Government refuses emergency use of banned bee-killing pesticide on sugar beet
Application had been made to use neonicotinoid thiamethoxam to protect sugar beet against damaging virus-carrying aphids.
Ban on bee-harming insecticide adds to struggling sugar beet farmers’ woes
‘Growers now have no viable solution to protect their crop,’ warns NFU ...
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Growers ask for urgent meeting as Defra rejects neonic request
UK sugar beet sector has called for urgent meeting with Defra after it rejected an emergency authorisation for the use of a ...
Emergency pesticide refusal leaves beet crops exposed to virus threat, warn farmers
The NFU says sugar beet crops have been left exposed to "devastating" virus yellows infections after Defra rejected an ...
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Government refuses emergency use of banned bee-killing pesticide on sugar beet
as a seed treatment for sugar beet to protect against aphids that carry yellows virus – which can damage the crop. But Environment Minister Emma Hardy decided not to grant the authorisation for ...