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 ...

Amalgamated Sugar’s beet crop looks mostly good despite weather- and water-related challenges. “If growing conditions remain ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) -For years, sugar beets were a lifeline for American farmers. More than half of domestically produced sugar comes from the white-fleshed root crops, and robust demand from the ...

RENVILLE — A soil health meeting later this month in Olivia will focus on strip-till and cover crops in a sugar beet rotation. According to a news release from the Renville County Soil and Water ...

Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is a globally significant industrial crop whose yield and quality are markedly influenced by abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, temperature extremes and ...