Sugar beets paid until the mid-1970s, when Holly Sugar closed its sugar-beet processing plant in Delta after sugar prices took a dive. Growers replaced their beet crops with sweet corn and field corn, ...

Also, there's little waste involved in processing sugar beets to alcohol ... or biofuels produced from grasses, wood and plants. Could sugar beets be the next reasonable large-scale ethanol ...

The occasion was the launch of Christopher Power’s book The Carlow Sugar Factory, sub-titled The extraordinary story of an ...

In annual report to Renville County, the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative outlined ... the crop could be harvested and processed. The processing rate has to be tempered so that the ...

Cercospora leaf spot, caused by the fungus Cercospora beticola, is a significant threat to sugar beet production worldwide. This disease can lead to substantial yield losses and economic impacts ...

Takatomo Kusano, the company’s president, adds that the cultivation of sugar beets ... plant-derived, biodegradable plastic. “Fibnano Resin’s strength, heat resistance, and ease of ...

Family-owned Ouvre, which operates one sugar plant located in Souppes-sur-Loing ... allow Ouvre farmers to deliver their sugar beets for processing "from the 2025 campaign onwards".

Government has refused an emergency application a neonicotinoid pesticide on sugar beet in England - causing concern for Suffolk farmers ...