Tag: sugarbeet
Sugar Beets’ Role in the Idaho Economy
Sugar Beets’ Role in the Idaho Economy By Heather Kennison MagicValley.com May 22, 2016 A top crop: The sugar beet is in the top six or seven crops for the state in terms of its value when it leaves the farm, said Laura Johnson, bureau chief for the Idaho State Department of Agriculture’s market development … Read More
Academies of Science finds GMOs Not Harmful to Human Health
Academies of Science finds GMOs Not Harmful to Human Health By: Elizabeth Weise, USATODAY May 17, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO — Genetically engineered crops are safe for humans and animals to eat and have not caused increases in cancer, obesity, gastrointestinal illnesses, kidney disease, autism or allergies, an exhaustive report from the National Academies of Science released Tuesday found. … Read More
Environmental Impacts of GMO Sugar Science Denial
The Environmental Impacts of GMO Sugar Science Denial By: Kevin M. Folta, Science 2.0 May 13, 2016 Several times a year I find myself exiting the Florida’s Turnpike at Yeehaw Junction and heading south. When I get to the small town of Okeechobee I take a left and head down Route 98 through Florida’s extensive … Read More
Mike’s Mix: 2 BĒT Vodka Recipes
Mike’s Mix: 2 BĒT Vodka Recipes April 9, 2016 8:00 AM By: Mike Augustyniak, CBS Minnesota Sugar beets are an ugly vegetable that, it turns out, makes a very sexy spirit. Jerad Poling and Ben Brueshoff are the co-founders of BĒT Vodka, and the entrepreneurs we can thank for that discovery. They met first in the spring … Read More
Sugar Beets May Offer Feed Alternative, Boost Young Pigs’ Gut Health
Sugar Beets May Offer Feed Alternative, Boost Young Pigs’ Gut Health By Aerin Curtis, feednavigator.com, 08-Feb-2016 Sugar beet pulp (SBP) may prompt gut health and offer an alternative feed ingredient for young pigs. Read Full Story Here
Sugar beet waste product touted as billion-dollar ‘wonder material’
Sugar beet waste product touted as billion-dollar ‘wonder material’ Posted September 16th, 2015 by Reuters Media A Scottish company which has developed a material made from sugar beet waste believes the sky is the limit – literally. Cellucomp says its Curran product is twice as strong as carbon fibre and could one day be used … Read More
When Things Speak: The Beet Knife
Posted May 2nd, 2015 by NET In the 1870s, thousands of Germans from Russia left Russia for the United States. By 1910, the US census counted 13,000 Germans from Russia in Nebraska alone. Diane Wilson says these new immigrants started transitioning to American life by continuing a lot of their own traditions, especially when it came … Read More