FARGO, N.D. -- As February slips toward March, sugar beet farmers in the Red River Valley still face "massive uncertainty" about whether they'll be planting Roundup Ready sugar beets in 2011. The ...

U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White Tuesday denied a request for a preliminary injunction against using Monsanto’s Roundup Ready sugar beet seed during the upcoming planting season. The ruling ...

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 ...

If you’ve been feeling out of sync from trying to follow the ball on genetically modified (GM) sugar beets, the ten-page order last Friday from U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey S. White probably is ...

A federal judge in San Francisco could decide Friday to order a halt to the planting of any genetically modified -- or "Roundup Ready" -- sugar beets in the nation. That would be a big deal in the Red ...

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SALUTE TO AGRICULTURE: Is Roundup ready? So far so good, growers and agronomists say Farmers raising sugar beets in the Red River Valley probably will remember this year as a turning point. The ...

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 ...

Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Woys Weaver is the culmination of some thirty years of first-hand knowledge of growing, tasting and cooking with heirloom vegetables. A staunch supporter of ...

Sugar beet growers are set to have a busy Easter as better forecast weather will see them trying to catch up on beet drilling, with only 5% of the national crop drilled in the wettest March in England ...