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Stand – that’s what it’s all about year in and year out. If you don’t have a stand, you can’t achieve maximum profit. At Seedex, we believe First out of the ground, First to the bank. Every year the sales team plants plots that are: in the grower’s field – one half mile long planted [...]

By: Matt Bewley, AgWeekly 9-8-2009 The Red River Valley Sugarbeet Museum in Crookston, Minn., has announced that they will be honoring several generations of the Green family of St. Thomas, N.D. for its “distinguished and continued service to the sugar beet industry.” This is the fifth year the museum has recognized a local family that [...]

By: Kathryn Lynch-Morin, The Bay City Times 9-8-2009 For many farmers in the Great Lakes Bay Region, there is nothing sweeter than the fall sugar beet harvest. Gene Meylan uses a pitchfork to dig up a sugar beet at his farm on Seven Mile Road in Kawkawlin. Maylan, who farms 350 acres of sugar beets, [...]

By: Associated Press, [L=http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/article/id/93032/group/Agriculture/]The Jamestown News[EL 9-8-2009 GRAND FORKS (AP) — American Crystal Sugar Co. is starting its initial sugar beet harvest this week in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. During the “pre-pile” harvest, growers get just enough beets out of the ground to get Crystal’s five processing plants [...]

By: Paul Morden, The Observer 9-8-2009 Lambton County’s sugar beet growers can expect higher prices this year, but uncooperative spring weather means yields could be down. “We were a month late in planting here in Lambton,” said Mark Lumley, a Sarnia farmer and vice-president of the Ontario Sugar Beet Growers Association. Even with the adequate [...]

By: Associated Press, WWCO 9-1-2009 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) ¯ American Crystal Sugar Co. is starting its initial sugar beet harvest this week in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. During the “pre-pile” harvest, growers get just enough beets out of the ground to get Crystal’s five processing plants running. [...]

By: Tom Lutey, Billings Gazette 9-1-2009 With hysteria mounting over America’s snack and candy companies allegedly running out of sugar, farmers of the sweet stuff have issued the following advisory: Don’t be a sucker. “We have sugar and we have good, quality sugar,” said Inder Mathur, president and chief executive officer of Western Sugar Cooperative, [...]

By: Yi Tian, Bloomberg.com 9-1-2009 U.S. sugar supplies are adequate this year, and the approaching harvests will allow enough time to determine whether government import quotas should be lifted to slow a surge in prices, Imperial Sugar Co. executives said. “There’s really no overall shortage of sugar in the marketplace,” said Patrick Henneberry, a senior [...]

Hello Sugar, Seedex’s online newsletter, is just one of the many features of the new website launched for the 2009-2010 season. The new seedexseed.com is your hub for everything related to sugar beet seeds. From trial results to the launch of Seedex’s Roundup Ready® varieties, seedexseed.com will keep you posted on everything in the world [...]

Fargo, ND – Seedex Seeds proudly announces the release of Roundup Ready varietiess for 2010. As one of the last seed companies to become Roundup Ready®, Seedex stands by its claim that its Roundup Ready® varieties will outperform its competitors first generation of Roundup Ready® varieties and match the return of its conventional varieties. Regional [...]