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 ...

Left: Beet seedlings in ‘conetainers’ await vernalization for rapid-cycle seed production. Mitch McGrath is research geneticist with the USDA-ARS Sugarbeet & Bean Research Unit, Michigan State ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

A record sugar beet harvest likely will keep Michigan Sugar processing plants working until the end of March. Keith Kalso, agricultural manager for Michigan Sugar Co. at the Croswell facility, said ...

American Crystal Sugar Co.'s beet harvest remains on hold, since being stopped Oct. 2 because the temperatures were too high for beets to store well in the huge stockpiles set up around the region for ...

Hitch-hiking on farm machinery, the seeds of sugar-beet weeds can travel more than a kilometre from the field where they were born. In theory, such seeds could spread genes from genetically modified ...

Take a good look at a beet seed and you might think of a miniature mace wielded by a medieval mouse. Or maybe something more modern: a Grape-Nut (yes, the cereal). In any case, the time is almost nigh ...