Farmers are hoping for a cool, wet spring to halt a three-year population explosion of a pest which has the potential to ...

NEW YORK, Oct 29 (Reuters) - America's sugar beet growers are under siege as U.S. food companies increasingly shun genetically modified (GMO) crops. In the past seven years, the farmers - many in ...

Soggy fields will prevent the region's farmers from harvesting about 15,000 acres of sugar beets this year. The Red River Valley's two sugar beet co-ops, American Crystal Sugar Co. and Minn-Dak ...

FARGO, N.D. -- With the sugar beet payments headed south for the 2013 crop and potentially the next two crops, shareholders and joint venture partners are wondering how to handle the financial ...

Kirk Watt is preparing his field of sugar beets for harvest just east of Moorhead. He didn't plant the genetically modified Roundup Ready beets this year, but wishes he had. "We had nonRoundup here ...

The British Sugar factory at Wissington, an eight-mile (13km) drive from Downham Market, is now dubbed "the largest and the ...

After several years of strong prices, sugar farmers are taking their lumps, analysts say. World production of beet and cane sugar has sent sugar prices into in a slump, a trend that doesn’t bode well ...

Carmel "Chuck" Solano's childhood was everything but ordinary. "This is a picture of me, my mother, and my dad…I was 7 years old then," Solano told CBS Colorado. Using his hands and a short-hoe, ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Hearing that crisp snap as the roots separate and a fresh radish is plucked from carefully cultivated soil is a sound farm manager Kaitlin Davis doesn't tire of hearing. “Right now, I'm ...

Ask beet farmers to identify the late-fall odor hanging over Billings and they'll say it's the smell of money emanating from the stacks of the South Side sugar refinery. This year, it smells like Fort ...

FARGO, N.D. -- With beet acres stuck in wet fields on the north end of the Red River Valley, American Crystal Sugar Co.'s board of directors decided Oct. 23 to allow harvest of any beets that growers ...

Starring in two hot novels in the past six months suggests that the Minnesota vegetable is on a hot streak. Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red” was set in a town dependent on beets, with a prominent ...