Industrial processing to deliver high-quality commercial seed includes removing chemical inhibitors of germination, and is essential to produce fresh sprouts, achieve vigorous crop establishment, and ...

On the surface, the idea of four competing companies jointly owning a company sounds like a recipe for disaster. In fact, it may be exactly why West Coast Beet Seed Co. has operated as long as it has, ...

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 ...

Sugar beet drilling is racing to a close in the current dry weather with higher beet prices and the availability of a key virus yellows seed treatment prompting more optimism among beet growers and ...

The University of Idaho Sugar Beet Conference is slated from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. Dec. 4 at Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise. Amalgamated Sugar, a grower-owned cooperative that operates processing ...

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 ...