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 ...

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 ...

Mitch Lies/For the Capital Press Greg Loberg, manager of West Coast Beet Seed Co., discusses the history of the 75-year-old company, depicted in these pictures at the company's Salem headquarters. On ...

As February slips toward March, sugar beet farmers in the Red River Valley still face "massive uncertainty" about whether they'll be planting the new and successful genetically engineered "Roundup ...

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 ...

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 ...

(This is an edited version of an article published Feb. 21 in Agweek.) FARGO -- As February slips toward March, sugar beet farmers in the Red River Valley still face "massive uncertainty" about ...

Seed processing is one of the factors under scrutiny as scientists try to find out why sugar beet crops failed to emerge properly following the coldest March for more than 50 years. Emergence problems ...

Sugar beet seed that emerged erratically this spring underwent rigorous germination tests before it was sold to farmers, says the processing company. Farmers have complained that some crops are ...

Each of the beet seed cluster contains 2 to 5 individual seeds. From our sample batch, one cluster developed into 2 plants. I had to remove one to ensure the other have enough room to develop. Leaves ...

Court decisions that have suspended the planting of genetically modified sugar beets could result in a sharp decline in American sugar production in the next two years, leading to possible price ...