EIS for Roundup Ready sugarbeet released
In 2012, at least 95% of sugarbeet acres in the U.S. were planted to Roundup Ready varieties, meaning they are resistant to glyphosate. Growers have overwhelmingly adopted this technology for a variety...
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Social benefits of biotech crops
Don Lilleboe at The Sugarbeet Grower magazine recently published great profile of a great farmer: “A Love of Farming: Idaho’s Duane Grant.” Anyone interested in the current state of farming...
View ArticleUsing ethofumesate when irrigating for emergence
At a recent meeting in Powell, I was asked how to best use ethofumesate (active ingredient in Nortron SC and other herbicides) in fields that must be furrow irrigated for sugarbeet emergence. This is a...
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Sugarbeet Production Guide Available
University of Nebraska Extension has recently published a new edition of the Sugarbeet Production Guide. The updated version is a 242-page, spiral-bound, full color publication with in-depth...
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Does the debate about genetically modified food matter?
Over at Grist, Nathanael Johnson has been writing an excellent series of pieces on genetically engineered crops, called “Panic-free GMOs.” The series as a whole has been excellent, and that is not...
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As consumers shift to non-GMO sugar, farmers may be forced to abandon...
A sugarbeet factory near Scottsbluff, Nebraska Dan Charles at NPR has recently done two interesting pieces about sugar production. In the first, he uses sugar as a proxy to look at the environmental...
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