AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho — Tyson Funk finished planting sugar beets April 20, 10-to-14 days ahead of the long-term average for his area. “The guys wanted to get done as much as I did,” he said. Donovan ...

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 ...

Cold, wet weather has slowed the planting of sugar beets, a long-season crop that is expected to benefit from this year’s increased supply of irrigation water. Grower-owned Amalgamated Sugar, which ...

ST. LOUIS -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has authorized spring planting of Genuity® Roundup Ready® sugar beets. Last year Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) and KWS SAAT AG petitioned USDA to ...

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 ...

The International Sugarbeet Institute is celebrating its 50th anniversary with beautiful spring weather and optimism that the best is yet to come for the Red River Valley's sugar beet industry. "This ...

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 ...

BARNEY, N.D. - Russ Mauch is concerned because sugar beet growers don't know if they will be able to plant Roundup Ready beats this spring. Russ Mauch, a Barney, N.D. farmer, is president of the ...