Attorneys told the president of American Crystal Sugar Co. that a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday made no decision but rather took under advisement the request to halt immediately the use of ...

Genetically modified sugar beets are harvested earlier this year south of Grand Forks, Minn. Nearly all sugar beet producers have converted to Roundup Ready beets, but a judge's decision to require an ...

Attorneys told the president of American Crystal Sugar Co. that a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday made no decision but rather took under advisement the request to halt immediately the use of ...

Advances in technology have drastically changed the way the sugar beet is planted, grown, harvested and the beet itself. Beets now don’t have to be thinned, a labor-intensive job done by hand years ...

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 ...

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.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s ...

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 ...

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 are planted on more than 1 million acres in 10 states, with Minnesota, North Dakota and Idaho being the top producers. The judge said the USDA failed to conduct the environmental review he ...