More worryingly for British sugar beet growers, Sign ... SBR and RTD in parts of Germany in 2023 has helped breeders to start screening both early- and later-stage breeding germplasm to find ...

Which One is Healthier? Cane and beet sugar are nutritionally nearly identical. They are composed of sucrose, and the calorie count is approximately the same—4 calories per gram.

For me it was the sugar beet. I was 14 years old in the summer of 1963 when I heard a Draper farmer named Ron Crane was hiring kids to thin sugar beets. He was paying by the row, ...

By analyzing 269 diverse sugar beet accessions from across the globe, researchers used advanced techniques such as genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and RNA sequencing to identify important ...

Though the sugar beet industry isn’t the sole economic giant it once was, the ag industry and state’s economy is sweeter for it. Rachel Gabel writes about agriculture and rural issues.

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After the beet yellows virus carried by aphids reduced the French harvest by 30% in 2020, and farmers and sugar makers lobbied the government, France suspended a European Union ban on ...

In the 1950s, the sugar beet industry began to decline because of increasing competition from imported cane sugar, among other factors. The once-mighty Great Western Sugar Company filed for ...

Sugar beet harvest at Harper Farms near Idahome, Idaho. The Northwest sugar beet harvest is finishing strong, thanks to a stretch of cooperative weather. “Favorable weather conditions with ...

As his sugar beet harvest continued, Zach Patterson of Paul, Idaho, liked much of what he saw — considering the challenges of the early season. “The beets that escaped the […] ...