The farming of sugar beets — a 27,000-acre crop in Colorado — has changed dramatically in the last decade as genetically modified seed and, much less controversially, GPS-guided tractors and ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A federal judge in California has ordered the removal from the ground of plants grown to produce seeds for genetically modified sugar beets, citing the potential for ...

MONITOR TWP. — Terry Histed says Michigan Sugar Co. beet growers are stuck in limbo just months before they’ll head in to their fields to plant this year’s crop. “Typically, we’d be ...

Last year 330,000 out of 552,000 western sugar-beet acres were planted with sheared seed. Estimated labor saving: 3,000,000 man hours. This year sheared seed will be used for the entire western ...

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 ...

Matthew C. Godfrey, Church History Department senior managing historian of outreach and engagement, holds sugar beet seeds in his office at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City on Aug. 13.

He noted the bountiful sugar beet fields and harvest in Europe and brought sugar beet seeds back to Colorado in his luggage. These seeds became the tiny start of his company, Great Western Sugar.

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 sugar beets tumble out of each truck that ...