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Rhizomania (RZM) is one of the most prevalent diseases in many sugarbeet growing areas today. That’s why many, if not all varieties sold today contain the Holly gene for RZM tolerance. In some areas growers are seeing increasing RZM pressure each year, but Seedex has the answer for growers in 2010. The answer is Tandem [...]

Seedex was the first sugarbeet seed company to offer all their varieties primed with XBEET and for the 2010 season, all Seedex varieties, both Roundup Ready® and conventional will once again come standard with XBEET. Adding XBEET to the already strong vigor and fast emergence of Seedex genetics means more benefits to our customers: • Accelerated and [...]

by Jennifer Johnson • Daily News, Wahpeton, ND  Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative Communications Manager Chris DeVries has been a novice photographer for years, but his work will soon be reaching the public on a larger scale. Within the next few weeks, DeVries’ photos of local residents, scenery and landmarks will be featured on the city of [...]

By DALE HILDEBRANT, Farm & Ranch Guide For the second time in two years, a ruling by a U.S. district judge based in San Francisco has thrown a roadblock in the path of ag chemical giant Monsanto. Back in 2007 Judge Charles Breyer halted the use of Roundup Ready alfalfa seed and on Sept. 21, [...]

By: Jon Knutson, INFORUM, Fargo Forum AMENIA, N.D. – Seven good days. That’s what Amenia farmer Bill Hejl needs to finish this year’s sugar beet harvest. “We just need some dry weather,” said Hejl, who had to shut down his sugar beet harvest after receiving about 3½ inches of rain in the past week. He’s [...]

By: staff report, Grand Forks Herald GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Wet weather has slowed the sugar beet harvest in parts of North Dakota. Jerry Christenson with American Crystal Sugar said harvesting is at a standstill south of Highway 2, but conditions are better north of there. He said the harvest normally takes about three weeks, [...]

INFORUM, Fargo Forum, Sept 30 After a month of preliminary digging, the American Crystal Sugar Co. beet harvest began full tilt at midnight Tuesday, meaning hundreds of big trucks will be rumbling over roads up and down the Red River Valley. The “stockpile” harvest start was moved up one day from its traditional first minute [...]

September 23, 2009 On September 21, 2009, U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will have to complete an Environmental Impact Statement for Roundup Ready sugar beets.  This is a procedural decision, in which the court concluded USDA needs to show a more thorough review process than was [...]

By Jeff Barnard, AP Environmental Writer Crookston Daily Times Grants Pass, Ore. -GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge overturned government approval of a variety of sugar beet genetically engineered to resist a popular weed killer produced by agricultural giant Monsanto, according to a ruling released Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San [...]

By: Staff Writer, The Missoulian BILLINGS – Sugar beet growers in Montana say they’re having a sweet season. Profits are at a 28-year high – with prices nearing $50 a ton – thanks in part to a world sugar shortage. Mike Hoffer with Western Sugar Cooperative says farmers in the Billings area are seeing a [...]