A Fargo-based energy company is moving forward with plans for the nation's first-ever beet ethanol plant - the first step in an ambitious plan to turn one of the Red River Valley's top crops into a ...

MOSES LAKE – It was a cloudy Wednesday afternoon as Lupe Reyna, 83, stared at an old gray building with boarded-off entrances – once a store for migrant workers. Hidden by trees and shrubs alongside ...

The annual sugar beet harvest is in full swing. Half of the sugar produced in the U.S. comes from beets, and about a quarter of the nation’s beets are grown in the West. A decade ago, Monsanto Company ...

WORLAND — The growers who produced and harvested sugar beets, the haulers that got them to the factory in Worland, and the hard work that happened there at every step of sugar processing — it all ...

Field testing is underway for genetically engineered sugar beets resistant to the herbicide dicamba, which biotech critics fear could injure surrounding crops. KWS, the developer of dicamba-tolerant ...

People love the taste of sugar beets' primary byproduct: white sugar. Soilborne cyst nematodes—parasitic, microscopic worms—enjoy the root vegetable, too, but as their sole food source. It's an ...

The sugarbeet harvest was underway across most U.S. growing regions during the first week of October. Harvest was going smoothly for the most part. Typical for early in the beet campaign, rain showers ...

MID-MICHIGAN (WNEM) - The cold weather is here to stay as the fall season is in full swing, and that also means it’s time for the sugar beet harvest. “Harvest is about half-done. We’re about 50 ...