DES MOINES — 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 environmental harm.

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 backs ...

Colorado farmer Steve Kelly brushes aside a small mound of dry yellow dirt to reveal a sugar beet seed that’s no larger than a peppercorn. It seems insignificant, but the seed is different from what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers are going to have to wait a little while longer before they know whether they’ll be able to plant this year’s crop of genetically modified sugar beets. Federal District Judge Jeffrey White ...

The recent report that Hershey Co. will stop buying beet sugar ("Hershey says 'bye' to beet sugar," Dec. 28) because it comes from genetically modified (GM) seeds was disappointing, because the ...

A new online sugar beet seed calculator designed specifically for farmers seeking to optimise yields and assess the financial return of seed treatments is available. Launched by seed technology ...

Sugar beet farmers should have been more careful when they wished for a genetically modified future. Two years ago, after the United States Department of Agriculture gave its blessing—prematurely it ...

Steve Kelly among the rows of sugar beets on his Greeley, Colorado, farm. He says GMO seeds allow him to grow more beets on less land. Colorado farmer Steve Kelly brushes aside a small mound of dry ...