Each of the beet seed cluster contains 2 to 5 individual seeds. From our sample batch, one cluster developed into 2 plants. I had to remove one to ensure the other have enough room to develop. Leaves ...

On the surface, the idea of four competing companies jointly owning a company sounds like a recipe for disaster. In fact, it may be exactly why West Coast Beet Seed Co. has operated as long as it has, ...

Beets are commonly grown for their bulbous roots, but their tops can also be harvested for greens, and they are an excellent source of Vitamin A as well as calcium. Beet juice is sometimes used in ...

Steve Kelly among the rows of sugar beets on his Greeley, Colorado, farm. He says GMO seeds allow him to grow more beets on less land. Colorado farmer Steve Kelly brushes aside a small mound of dry ...

Attorneys told the president of American Crystal Sugar Co. that a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday made no decision but rather took under advisement the request to halt immediately the use of ...

Left: Beet seedlings in ‘conetainers’ await vernalization for rapid-cycle seed production. Mitch McGrath is research geneticist with the USDA-ARS Sugarbeet & Bean Research Unit, Michigan State ...

Red River Valley sugar beet farmers will be able to plant genetically modified sugar beets again this spring after a San Francisco judge denied a request to ban them. Judge Jeffrey White, a federal ...

Take a good look at a beet seed and you might think of a miniature mace wielded by a medieval mouse. Or maybe something more modern: a Grape-Nut (yes, the cereal). In any case, the time is almost nigh ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It rises each fall in the midst of northern Colorado’s farmlands, a mini-mountain that from a distance looks like a pile of dirt. About 30,000 pounds of ...